| Preface to the English-Language Edition | p. ix |
| Introduction: Burdens of Memory | p. 1 |
| Identity in Movement | p. 1 |
| Constructed Memories | p. 14 |
| Making Nations: Sovereignty and Equality | p. 23 |
| Lexicon: "People" and Ethnos | p. 24 |
| The Nation: Boundaries and Definitions | p. 31 |
| From Ideology to Identity | p. 39 |
| From Ethnic Myth to Civil Imaginary | p. 45 |
| The Intellectual as the Nation's "Prince" | p. 54 |
| Mythistory: In the Beginning, God Created the People | p. 64 |
| The Early Shaping of Jewish History | p. 65 |
| The Old Testament as Mythistory | p. 71 |
| Race and Nation | p. 78 |
| A Historians' Dispute | p. 81 |
| A Protonationalist View from the East | p. 87 |
| An Ethnicist Stage in the West | p. 95 |
| The First Steps of Historiography in Zion | p. 100 |
| Politics and Archaeology | p. 107 |
| The Earth Rebels against Mythistory | p. 115 |
| The Bible as Metaphor | p. 123 |
| The Invention of the Exile: Proselytism and Conversion | p. 129 |
| The "People" Exiled in 70 CE | p. 130 |
| Exile without Expulsion-History in the Twilight Zone | p. 136 |
| Against Its Will, the People Emigrate from the Homeland | p. 143 |
| "All Nations Shall Flow Unto It" | p. 150 |
| The Hasmoneans Impose Judaism on Their Neighbors | p. 154 |
| From Hellenistic Sphere to Mesopotamian Territory | p. 161 |
| Judaizing in the Shadow of Rome | p. 166 |
| How Rabbinical Judaism Viewed Proselytizing | p. 173 |
| The Sad Fate of the Judeans | p. 178 |
| Remembering and Forgetting the "People of the Land" | p. 182 |
| Realms of Silence: In Search of Lost (JEWISH) Time | p. 190 |
| Arabia Felix: The Proselytized Kingdom of Himyar | p. 192 |
| Phoenicians and Berbers: The Mysterious Queen Kahina | p. 199 |
| Jewish Kagans? A Strange Empire Rises in the East | p. 210 |
| Khazars and Judaism: A Long Love Affair? | p. 218 |
| Modern Research Explores the Khazar Past | p. 230 |
| The Enigma: The Origin of Eastern Europe's Jews | p. 238 |
| The Distinction: Identity Politics in Israel | p. 250 |
| Zionism and Heredity | p. 256 |
| The Scientific Puppet and the Racist Hunchback | p. 272 |
| Founding an Ethnos State | p. 280 |
| "Jewish and Democratic"-An Oxymoron? | p. 292 |
| Ethnocracy in the Age of Globalization | p. 307 |
| Afterword | p. 314 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 326 |
| Index | p. 327 |
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