Jacob’s Legacy: A Genetic View of Jewish History

✍ Scribed by David B. Goldstein, Ph.D.

Publisher: Yale University Press
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Leaves: 171
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

CHAPTER 1.
Keeping God's House: Y Chromosomes and Old Testament Priests.

CHAPTER 2.
Lost Tribe No More? The Black Jews of South Africa.

CHAPTER 3.
Looking Out for Number Two: The Case of the Ashkenazi Levites.

CHAPTER 4.
Those Jewish Mothers: The Development of Female-Defined Ethnicity in the Jewish Diaspora.

CHAPTER 5.
Look on Mine Affliction: Genetic Diseases and Jewish History.

CHAPTER 6.
Jews, Genes, and the Future.

Notes.

Glossary.

Bibliography.

Index.

✦ Subjects

Ashkenazi, Bible, Black Jews, Cohenim, Diaspora, disease, DNA, ethnicity, genetics, inheritance, Levites, South Africa, Torah, Y Chromosome

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