Books Received

AKHUND, IQBAL. Memoirs of a Bystander: A Life of Diplomacy. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xvii + 480 + 34 figs. $42. AMIRAN, RUTH and ORNIT ILAN. The Chalcolithic and Early Bronze IB Settlements and the Early Bronze II City: Architecture and Town Planning, Sixth to Eighteenth Seasons of Excavations, 19711978, 1980-1984. Early Arad II. Jerusalem: The Israel Museum and the Israel Exploration Society, 1996. Pp. 188 + 174 figs. + 31 plans. $80. ANDREU, GUILLEMETTE. Egypt in the Age of the Pyramids. Translated by DAVID LORTON. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1997. (Originally published as L'Egypt au temps des pyramides: Troisihme millinaire avant J.-C. Paris: Hachette, 1994.) Pp. 172. $13.95. ASSMANN, JAN. Moses the Egyptian: The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 1997. Pp. x + 276. $29.95. BALDHURT, AL-. Anslb al-Afrdf. Pt. 5. Sdair furac QuraiK. Edited by IHSAN CABBXS. Bibliotheca Islamica, vol. 28. Beirut: In Kommission bei Franz Steiner Verlag Stuttgart, 1996. Pp. 739 (Arabic). DM 156.