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

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very good dust-jacket but with small tear at bottom of rear panel, very good black cloth BUT NOTE: page 161/162 is wavy along right margin as if from moist fingers. WEITZMAN, STEVEN. The origin of the Jews: the quest for roots in a rootless age. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017, 1st printing number line ending with 1, ix, 394pp., . "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". - 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. ISBN 9780691174600. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 99295

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