The origin of the Jews: the quest for roots in a rootless age
"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. Some skeptics have even sought to debun...
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| 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. Some skeptics have even sought to debunk the very idea that the Jews have a common origin. 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. Scholars have written hundreds of books on the topic and come up with scores of explanations, theories, and historical reconstructions, but this is the first book to trace the history of the different approaches that have been applied to the question, including genealogy, linguistics, archaeology, psychology, sociology, and genetics. Weitzman shows how this quest has been fraught since its inception with religious and political agendas, how anti-Semitism cast its long shadow over generations of learning, and how recent claims about Jewish origins have been difficult to disentangle from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He does not offer neatly packaged conclusions but invites readers on an intellectual adventure, shedding new light on the assumptions and biases of those seeking answers - and the challenges that have made finding answers so elusive."--Dust jacket |
| Physical Description: | ix, 394 Seiten Illustrationen 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 0691174601 9780691174600 |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
List of Illustrations · ix
Introduction · l
chapter i Genealogical Bewilderment:
Lost Ancestors and Elusive Lineages 25
chapter 2 Roots and Rootlessness: Paleolinguistics
and the Prehistory of the Jews 63
chapter 3 Histories Natural and Unnatural:
The Documentary Hypothesis and
Other Developmental Theories 101
chapter 4 A Thrice-Told Tel: The Archaeology
of Ethnogenesis 139
chapter 5 Thought Fossils: Psychoanalytic Approaches 174
chapter 6 Hellenism and Hybridity: Did the Jews
Learn How to be Jewish from the Greeks? 207
chapter 7 Disruptive Innovation: The Jewish
People as a Modern Invention 245
chapter 8 Source Codes: The Genetic
Search for Founders 274
Conclusion ■ 317
Acknowledgments · 329
Bibliographical Commentary ■ 333
Index · 383
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ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Tampering with a biblical genealogy? 30
2. William Robertson Smith dressed
as “Abdullah Effendi.” 68
3. The trilingual Behistun Inscription. 128
4. Duncan Mackenzie, leader of the first
archaeological expedition to Tel Beth Shemesh. 150
5. Stela from El-Amarna depicting Akhenaten. 186
6. Wilhelm von Humboldt. 228
7. Figurine found in Egypt by the archaeologist
Sir Flinders Petrie. 282
8. Nazi propaganda slide of a Hitler Youth
educational presentation. 285
9. Illustrated family tree of Rabbi Ben Shull. 332
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