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The Origin of the Jews: The Quest for Roots in a Rootless Age
Steven Weitzman
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Description for The Origin of the Jews: The Quest for Roots in a Rootless Age
Hardback. Num Pages: 408 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: HRAM; HRAX; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
The first major history of the scholarly quest to answer the question of Jewish origins 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 ... Read more
The first major history of the scholarly quest to answer the question of Jewish origins 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691174600
SKU
V9780691174600
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About Steven Weitzman
Steven Weitzman is the Abraham M. Ellis Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Literatures and Ella Darivoff Director of the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His books include Solomon: The Lure of Wisdom and Surviving Sacrilege: Cultural Persistence in Jewish Antiquity.
Reviews for The Origin of the Jews: The Quest for Roots in a Rootless Age
[A] multicourse intellectual feast... Weitzman's facility with making complex points accessible to the lay reader, and his ease with synthesizing a wide range of research and prior analyses, make this an invaluable resource for both novice and scholar. His rigorous critiques will resonate even for those readers with little or no prior interest in the book's central questions.
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