BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:148@jewishlifect.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230219T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230219T113000 DTSTAMP:20230206T195745Z URL:https://jewishlifect.org/events/coalition-speaker-series-the-origin-of -the-jews-the-quest-for-roots-in-a-rootless-age-prof-steven-weitzman-2/ SUMMARY:COALITION SPEAKER SERIES: "The Origin of the Jews: The Quest for Ro ots in a Rootless Age\," Prof. Steven Weitzman DESCRIPTION:\n \n \;\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Jews have one of the best-kn own origin stories in the world\, tracing their ancestry back to the Bible \, but for more than a century\, scholars have questioned the traditional account\, coming up with various alternative theories to account for the J ews’ emergence. When exactly did they appear? Under what circumstances? And why do historians understand their origins in such different ways?\n\n This talk will address these questions by exploring some of the latest res earch bearing on the origin of the Jews\, moving from the Bible to 21st ce ntury biology. Along the way\, it will discuss Stanford University’s dis tinctive contribution to the quest to understand where and from whom the J ews descend.\n\nProf. Weitzman specializes in the Hebrew Bible and the ori gins of Jewish Culture. He received his PhD from Harvard University after completing his B.A. at UC Berkeley and spent several years teaching in the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University. where he served as director of its Jewish Studies program. He comes to Penn from Stanford Un iversity where he was Professor of Jewish Culture and Religion and the dir ector of the Taube Center for Jewish Studies. Professor Weitzman is today Abraham M. Ellis Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Literatures \, Ella Darivoff Director of the Katz Center of Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.\n\nJoin us!\n\nWith gratitude to Gloria a nd Marty Greenstein and the Rene Bloch Foundation for generously supportin g the Speaker Series program.\n\n[gravityform id="3" title="true" descript ion="true"]\n\n\n\n\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20221106T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR