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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2017]Description: ix, 394 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780691174600 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 956.9402 WEI
LOC classification:
  • DS121 .W46
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 ... 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"--Jacket.
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Includes index.

"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"--Jacket.

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