Prof's Choice

• Samuel Colcord Bartlett, Front Egypt to Palestine through Sinai the Wilderness and the South Country (Harper and Brothers, 1879)—A charming tour of the "Holy Land" in which Dartmouth's President Bartlett uses the Bible as his guide to retrace the journeys of the Israelites through the Sinai desert.

• Arthur Hertzberg, The Jews inAmerica: Four Centuries of An UneasyEncounter: A History (Simon and Schuster 1989)—Dartmouth religion professor Hertzberg confronts the ambivalence of American Puritan attitudes toward the Jewish community. As he puts it, "The Puritans were obsessed by the Jewish Bible—but they were not hospitable to Jews, or to Judaism."

• S.E. Morison, Puritan Pronaos:Studies in the Intellectual Life of New England in the Seventeenth Century (New York University Press, 1936)—Morison identifies Hebraic components of New England's cultural and religious life.

• Ezra Stiles, The Literary Diary of EzraStiles (Scribners, 1901)—As Yale's president from 1778 to 1795, Stiles encouraged the study of Hebrew at his college and other institutions. Unable to find a suitable professor of Hebrew, he taught the language himself. Stiles's diary includes comments on the small Jewish population of the United States.

• Roy Chamberlain and Herman Feldman, The Dartmouth Bible (Houghton Mifflin, 1950)—In a creative abridgement, Professors Chamberlain and Feldman preserved the integrity of the chapters chosen to represent each Biblical book. TheDartmouth Bible is out of print, but occasionally copies turn up on the shelves of New England booksellers.

• H.S. Stout, The New England Soul:Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England (Oxford University Press, 1986)— Stout was a respondent at a conference held at Dartmouth in 1990 on "Hebrew and the Bible in Colonial America." The New England Quarterly, in praising this book, says, "Stout has created a field of scholarship hitherto neglected—the manuscript sermon as a source of religious culture in Colonial times."