Jerusalem Quarterly 55 [ 97 ] Dalman for All Seasons Book Review Yqtm cpf Ewuvqou kp Rcnguvkpg, Volume I. Gustaf Dalman, Trans. Nadia Abdulhadi-Sukhtian. Ramallah: Dar Al Nasher, 2013, pp. xii + 662, indices to p. 715, 38 unnumbered pages of photographs. Reviewed by Alex Winder In 1899, Gustaf Dalman arrived in Palestine for the first time, spending two months there prior to a seven-month stay in Aleppo. He returned immediately afterward and eventually spent some twelve of the following fourteen years in Palestine, where he established and directed the German Protestant Institute for the Archaeology of the Holy Land in Jerusalem. In this time, Dalman collected the bulk of the field research that would form the core of his magisterial Arbeit und Sitte in Palästina (Yqtm and Customs in Palestine). Seven volumes of this work appeared between 1928 and 1942, and the eighth was published posthumously in 2001. Now, a century after Dalman experienced and recorded life in Palestine, Volume I of Yqtm cpf Ewuvqou, “The Course of the Year and the Course of the Day,” has been translated into English for the first time. The book is in two parts, the first of which deals with autumn and winter and the second with spring and summer. Dalman proceeds methodically and in great detail through the course of a year and teases out the complex