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.

[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."--Publishers Weekly "An accomplishment for the academy."--Kirkus

• List of Illustrations ix Introduction 1 1 Genealogical Bewilderment: Lost Ancestors and Elusive Lineages 25 2 Roots and Rootlessness: Paleolinguistics and the Prehistory of the Jews 63 3 Histories Natural and Unnatural: The Documentary Hypothesis and Other Developmental Theories 101 4 A Thrice-Told Tel: The Archaeology of Ethnogenesis 139 5 Thought Fossils: Psychoanalytic Approaches 174 6 Hellenism and Hybridity: Did the Jews Learn How to be Jewish from the Greeks? 207 7 Disruptive Innovation: The Jewish People as a Modern Invention 245 8 Source Codes: The Genetic Search for Founders 274 Conclusion 317 Acknowledgments 329 Bibliographical Commentary 333 Index 383

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.

[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."--Publishers Weekly "An accomplishment for the academy."--Kirkus

• List of Illustrations ix Introduction 1 1 Genealogical Bewilderment: Lost Ancestors and Elusive Lineages 25 2 Roots and Rootlessness: Paleolinguistics and the Prehistory of the Jews 63 3 Histories Natural and Unnatural: The Documentary Hypothesis and Other Developmental Theories 101 4 A Thrice-Told Tel: The Archaeology of Ethnogenesis 139 5 Thought Fossils: Psychoanalytic Approaches 174 6 Hellenism and Hybridity: Did the Jews Learn How to be Jewish from the Greeks? 207 7 Disruptive Innovation: The Jewish People as a Modern Invention 245 8 Source Codes: The Genetic Search for Founders 274 Conclusion 317 Acknowledgments 329 Bibliographical Commentary 333 Index 383

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.

[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."--Publishers Weekly "An accomplishment for the academy."--Kirkus

• List of Illustrations ix Introduction 1 1 Genealogical Bewilderment: Lost Ancestors and Elusive Lineages 25 2 Roots and Rootlessness: Paleolinguistics and the Prehistory of the Jews 63 3 Histories Natural and Unnatural: The Documentary Hypothesis and Other Developmental Theories 101 4 A Thrice-Told Tel: The Archaeology of Ethnogenesis 139 5 Thought Fossils: Psychoanalytic Approaches 174 6 Hellenism and Hybridity: Did the Jews Learn How to be Jewish from the Greeks? 207 7 Disruptive Innovation: The Jewish People as a Modern Invention 245 8 Source Codes: The Genetic Search for Founders 274 Conclusion 317 Acknowledgments 329 Bibliographical Commentary 333 Index 383