Bibliograph

The origin of the Jews, the quest for roots in a rootless age, Steven Weitzman

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The origin of the Jews, the quest for roots in a rootless age, Steven Weitzman

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-382) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The origin of the Jews

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

962354520

Responsibility statement

Steven Weitzman

Sub title

the quest for roots in a rootless age

Summary

The Jews have one of the longest continuously recorded histories of any people in the world, but what do we actually know about their origins? While many think the answer to this question can be found in the Bible, others look to archaeology or genetics ... in this book, Steven Weitzman takes a learned and lively look at what we know - or think we know - about where the Jews came from, when they arose, and how they came to be

Table Of Contents

Genealogical bewilderment: lost ancestors and elusive languages -- Roots and rootlessness: paleolinguistics and the prehistory of the Jews -- Histories natural and unnatural: the documentary hypothesis and other developmental theories -- A thrice-told Tel: the archaeology of ethnogenesis -- Thought fossils: psychoanalytic approaches -- Hellenism and hybridity: did the Jews learn how to be Jewish from the Greeks? -- Disruptive innovation: the Jewish people as a modern invention -- Source codes: the genetic search for founders

Target audience

adult

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