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of the Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, headed by
Prof. Yosef Garfinkel. To all of them I express my gratitude and appreciation. Sarah
Arenson, for whom researching the antiquities of Caesarea and teaching them
to others are great loves, read the proofs of the Hebrew, as well as this English
edition meticulously and made insightful comments. For that as well I thank her.
Thanks are also due to the Caesarea Development Corporation and the Edmond de
Rothschild Foundation for their generous donation which enabled the publication
of the English edition of this book.
The publishing arm of Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi devoted effort in producing this book:
Benny Wexler – the director of publishing – who from the outset displayed
great enthusiasm for including this volume among the publications of the “Yad”
and worked to promote it along the stages of production, and Yael Dinovitz after
him; Haya Paz Cohen – the experienced managing editor – who devotedly and
efficiently dealt with the manuscript, and Dr. Amnon Ramon, deputy director of
the Institute for the Research of Eretz Yisrael. The translation of the text from
the Hebrew was done most skillfully by Mrs. Fern Seckbach. The style editing was
carried out by Michael Glatzer, the complicated design and pagination were carried
out competently and in good taste by Nitsa Bruck. My heartfelt appreciation goes to
all of them. I also wish to thank the anonymous readers of the Hebrew manuscript
on behalf of the publisher for their useful suggestions, and my friend Prof. Zeev
Gries, who offered great encouragement from the beginning on the importance of
a publication such as this for the general reading public. His experience and advice
were invaluable. Sincere thanks are also due to Dr. David and Jemima Jeselsohn for
the decision also to include this English version of the book in their Library series
Treasures of the Past.
A few modifications were inserted in the translation of the original Hebrew text in
order to address the results of most recent finds.

Joseph Patrich

Jerusalem

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