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Preface to the English-Language Edition
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Introduction: Burdens of Memory
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Identity in Movement
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Constructed Memories
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Making Nations: Sovereignty and Equality
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Lexicon: ôPeopleö and Ethnos
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The Nation: Boundaries and Definitions
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From Ideology to Identity
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From Ethnic Myth to Civil Imaginary
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The Intellectual as the Nation's ôPrinceö
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Mythistory: In the Beginning, God created the People
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The Early Shaping of Jewish History
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The Old Testament as Mythistory
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Race and Nation
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A Historians' Dispute
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A Protonationalist View from the East
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An Ethnicist Stage in the West
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The First Steps of Historiography in Zion
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Politics and Archaeology
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The Earth Rebels against Mythistory
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The Bible as Metaphor
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The Invention of the Exile: Proselytism and Conversion
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The ôPeopleö Exiled in 70 CE
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Exile without Expulsion-History in the Twilight Zone
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Against Its Will, the People Emigrate from the Homeland
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ôAll Nations Shall Flow Unto Itö
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The Hasmoneans Impose Judaism on Their Neighbors
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From The Hellenistic Sphere to Mesopotamian Territory
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Judaizing in the Shadow of Rome
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How Rabbinical Judaism Viewed Proselytizing
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The Sad Fate of the Judeans
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Remembering and Forgetting the ôPeople of the Landö
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Realms Of Silence: In Search of Lost (Jewish) Time
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Arabia Felix: The Proselytized Kingdom of Himyar
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Phoenicians and Berbers: The Mysterious Queen Kahina
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Jewish Kagans? A Strange Empire Rises in the East
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Khazars and Judaism: A Long Love Affair?
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Modern Research Explores the Khazar Past
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The Enigma: The Origin of Eastern Europe's Jews
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The Distinction: Identity Politics in Israel
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Zionism and Heredity
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The Scientific Puppet and the Racist Hunchback
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Founding an Ethnos State
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ôJewish and Democraticö-An Oxymoron?
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Ethnocracy in the Age of Globalization
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Acknowledgements
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Index
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