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Weitzman pursues research in three overlapping areas. His work draws on literary theory and religious studies to rethink questions of the Bible's meaning and contextualization, and to explore the history of the Bible's reception. A second line of research focuses on the emergence of Jewish culture in
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The Origin of the Jews: The Quest for Roots in a
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Surviving
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Johnson, Sylvester A.; Weitzman, Steven (February 2017).
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