Shlomo Sand’s intellectual bestseller is now available in an affordable paperback edition. Priced at US$16.95 and £9.99, this edition includes an all-new afterword in which Professor Sand responds to critics.
INVENTION OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE out now in an affordable paperback edition
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A professional interpreter of Hebrew just wrote me of your book. In the next edition please consider mentioning that Mesopotamian and Egyptian literature don’t reveal a “Hebrew” people.
I have an opinion of the motive for the invention and hope you are interested Thanks, js
A professional interpreter of Hebrew just wrote me of your book. In the next edition please consider mentioning that Mesopotamian and Egyptian literature don’t reveal a “Hebrew” people. Forgot to mention the search term is apiru
Dr Sand’s arguments are supported by Genetics:
“Jews were found to be more closely related to groups in the north of the Fertile Crescent (Kurds, Turks, and Armenians) than to their Arab neighbors.”
The Y Chromosome Pool of Jews as Part of the Genetic Landscape of the Middle East
Almut Nebel, Dvora Filon, Bernd Brinkmann, Partha P. Majumder, Marina Faerman, and Ariella Oppenheim
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1274378/
According to Wikipedia, Sand’s new after word accuses geneticists of pandering to 19th century racist ideology. This is a ridiculous accusation since Sand book is an attempt to discredit the Jewish national project through a denial Jewish pedigree and an affirmation of Palestinian pedigree. SAND is the one making the connection between genetics and political rights. Do we, the Jewish people not have the right to respond with EVIDENCE? The capacity for intellectual dishonesty and rhetorical slight of hand among anti-Zionists is BOUNDLESS.
What wrote SAND is a foul insult to the real History. It’s a shame and he found the best way to sell his trash!!!!
I admire Prof. Sand for his courage in writing this book and appreciate the information supporting his facts.
Once mentioned but never again
King Merneptah Stele – 1208 BC
The only time Israel was mentioned in the ancient Egyptian texts, the most meticulous and coherent of the world’s ancient civilizations and which covered the chronicles of nearly 3000 years, was in Merneptah Stele, a black granite slab engraved with a description of the victories of king Merneptah- son of the great Ramses II- in a military campaign against the Meshwesh Libyans and their Sea People allies, but its final two lines, line 26 & 27, refer to a prior military campaign in Canaan in the Near East.
The stele which dates to about 1208 BC was discovered by renowned British archaeologist Flinders Petrie at Thebes in 1896.
The Inscription contains a hymn and a list of the Pharaoh’s military victories. A tribe, whom Merenptah had victoriously smitten”I.si.ri.ar?”Or as Petrie quickly suggested that it read: “Israel!” is on the list of conquests. The mention of Israel is very short; it simply says, “Israel is laid waste, its seed is no more.”
(IT’S SEED IS NO MORE)…….