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Sacrificing Truth: Archaeology and the Myth of Masada, by Nachman Ben-Yehuda. Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2002. 275 pp. $29.95.

This book, which reads almost like a detective novel, documents the falsifications and concealed facts in Yigael Yadin's report of his excavations at Masada (1963-1965) and speculates as to why and how Yadin did so. It is a sequel to Ben-Yehuda's The Masada Myth: Collective Memory and Mythmaking in Israel (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press,...

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