The origin of the Jews: the quest for roots in a rootless age

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Genealogical Bewilderment: Lost Ancestors and Elusive Lineages -- CHAPTER 2 Roots and Rootlessness: Paleolinguistics and the Prehistory of the Jews -- CHAPTER 3 Histories Natural and Unnatural...

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Main Author: Weitzman, Steven 1965- (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Princeton Princeton University Press 2017
In:Year: 2017
Reviews:[Rezension von: Weitzman, Steven, 1965-, The origin of the Jews : the quest for roots in a rootless age] (2020) (Madigan, Patrick)
Further subjects:B Jews ; History
B Jews--History
B Electronic books
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Parallel Edition:Non-electronic
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Summary:Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Genealogical Bewilderment: Lost Ancestors and Elusive Lineages -- CHAPTER 2 Roots and Rootlessness: Paleolinguistics and the Prehistory of the Jews -- CHAPTER 3 Histories Natural and Unnatural: The Documentary Hypothesis and Other Developmental Theories -- CHAPTER 4 A Thrice- Told Tel: The Archaeology of Ethnogenesis -- CHAPTER 5 Thought Fossils: Psychoanalytic Approaches -- CHAPTER 6 Hellenism and Hybridity: Did the Jews Learn How to be Jewish from the Greeks? -- CHAPTER 7 Disruptive Innovation: The Jewish People as a Modern Invention -- CHAPTER 8 Source Codes: The Genetic Search for Founders -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliographical Commentary -- Index
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (408 pages)
ISBN:978-1-4008-8493-3