Origin of the Jews (eBook)

The Quest for Roots in a Rootless Age

Steven Weitzman (Autor)

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2017
408 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8493-3 (ISBN)

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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.

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The first major history of the scholarly quest to answer the question of Jewish originsThe 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 have 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.Spanning more than two centuries and drawing on the latest findings, The Origin of the Jews brings needed clarity and historical context to this enduring and often divisive topic.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.5.2017
• Zusatzinfo: 8 halftones.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Against Apion • Akhenaten • Amarna letters • Analogy • ancestors • Ancestry • Ancient history • Anthropology • antigenealogy • Anti-Semitism • archaeological excavation • archaeological expedition • archaeology • aryan • Ashkenazi Jews • Babylonian Captivity • Bronze Age • Canaan • Case study • Charles Darwin • Christianity • Constructivist Approach • Conversion • Conversion to Judaism • creation myth • Criticism • crypto-Judaism • Culture of Greece • Daniel Boyarin • Darwinism • developmental theories • Documentary Hypothesis • Edward Said • Eric Hobsbawm • ethnic group • ethnogenesis • etymology • Evolution • Evolutionism • Explanation • Ferdinand de Saussure • Flinders Petrie • Font Bureau • Friedrich Nietzsche • Genealogical bewilderment • genealogical research • Genealogy • Genetic History • geneticist • Genetics • gentile • grandparent • Greeks • Habiru • Harry Ostrer • Hebrew Bible • Hebrews • Hellenistic Age • Hellenistic period • hellenization • History • Hybridity • Ideology • Indigenous peoples • Invention • Israel • Israeli–Palestinian Conflict • Israelis • israelites • Jacques Derrida • Jewish Culture • Jewish genealogy • Jewish History • Jewish Identity • Jewish origins • Jewish Studies • Jews • Judaism • Judea • Julius Wellhausen • Khazars • Kingdom of Judah • Linguistics • Maccabean Revolt • Modernity • Moses and Monotheism • narrative • Nation • Nazism • Near East • North Africa • of education • Old Testament • paleolinguistics • paleontology • paleopsychology • palestinians • Philistines • Philology • Philosopher • P. J. Conkwright • Population Genetics • Postmodernism • Prehistory • premodern nationalism • primordialism • Protestantism • Psychoanalysis • Psychohistory • Psychology • Race (human categorization) • Racism • Rashi • Reform Judaism • Religion • Roman Empire • Roots • scientific racism • Scientist • Second Temple Period • Self-Image • Semitic people • Shaye Cohen • Shealtiel • Shlomo Bunimovitz • Shlomo Sand • Sigmund Freud • skepticism • Slavery • Sociology • source criticism • Tel Beth Shemesh • The Beginnings of Jewishness • The Invention of the Jewish People • The Other Hand • thought fossils • To this Day • tribe of Judah • World War II • Writing • Zionism • Zvi Lederman
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8493-4 / 1400884934
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8493-3 / 9781400884933