x Preface
translated in the collection can look up those passages or technical terms in
the original, published versions of the essays.
The editors would like to thank the many friends and colleagues who have
helped us in the process of collecting these essays and preparing them for
publication. We are indebted first of all to Lewis Bateman, formerly senior
editor at the University of North Carolina Press, who suggested the basic ar-
rangement of the essays into three volumes. We are also grateful to David
Perry, editor-in-chief; Charles Grench, assistant director and senior editor;
Pamela Upton, assistant managing editor; Amanda McMillan, assistant edi-
tor; and last but certainly not least, Brian MacDonald, our copyeditor, at the
University of North Carolina Press, for their flexibility, advice, and support
of the project.
Asaph Ben Tov, Masha Chormy, Tamar Herzig, Amir Marmor, Andrea
Rotstein, Naomi Schneider, and Ori Shapir of the Hebrew University in
Israel and Michal Molcho in Oxford retyped, converted, scanned, and cor-
rected old and new articles into new format, thereby providing the editors
with excellent manuscripts to work on. Dr. Nancy Thompson of the Metro-
politan Museum of Art in New York provided invaluable editorial assistance
at all stages. Our thanks also to Mark Rogers for his help with the maps. We
owe a very unique debt to Priscilla Lange whose generosity, kindhearted-
ness, and hospitality in Oxford has made all the difference. We also would
like to express our gratitude to the Fellows of Brasenose College Oxford and
All Souls College Oxford for their hospitality while we were working on this
project.
Above all, however, the editors would like to thank Fergus Millar, for his
scholarship, for his generosity, and for his friendship over three decades.
Hannah M. Cotton Guy M. Rogers
The Hebrew University Wellesley College
Jerusalem Wellesley