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This work provides an anthology of close textual readings and examinations of a wide range of topics by leading scholars in interreligious scholarship and Hindu-Jewish dialogue, offering innovative approaches to categories such as ritual, sacrifice, ethics, and theology while underscoring affinities between Hindu and Jewish philosophy and religion
List of contents
Yudit Kornberg Greenberg - Introduction
Part I Ritual and Sacrifice
Rachel Fell McDermott and Daniel Polish - Image Worship and Sacrifice: Legitimacy, Illegitimacy, and Theological Debate.
Tracy Pintchman - Shakthi Garbha as Ark of the Covenant at an American Hindu Goddess Temple.
Phillipe Bornet - Working towards a More Perfect World: Hospitality and Domestic Practices in Indian and Jewish Normative Texts.
Part II Ethics
Ithamar Theodor - Dharma and Halacha: Reflections on Hindu and Jewish Ethics.
Aaron Gross - Humane Subjects and Eating Animals: Comparing Implied Anthropologies in Jewish and Jain Dietary Practice.
Purushottama Bilimoria - Animal Justice and Moral Mendacity
Shoshana Razel Gordon Guedalia - Lethal Wives and Impure Widows: The Widow Marriage Taboo in Jewish and Hindu Law and Lore.
Part III Theology
Yudit Kornberg Greenberg - Reading Eros, Sacred Place, and Divine Love in the G¿t¿govinda and Shir-Ha-Shirim.
Paul Martin - On the Comparative Realization of Aesthetic Consciousness in Kabbalah and Tantra.
Thomas A. Forsthoefel - The Guru and the Zaddik and the Testimony of the Holy Ones.
Daniel Sperber - On the AUM and the Tetragrammaton
Barbara Holdrege - Hindu-Jewish Encounters-Whence, Whither, and Why?: Theorizing Embodied Communities in the Academy and Beyond.
About the Contributors
About the author
Ithamar Theodor is senior lecturer of Hindu studies at Zefat Academic College and director of the Hindu-Jewish Studies Program at The University of Haifa. His most recent book is The Fifth Veda in Hinduism; Philosophy, Poetry and Devotion in the Bhagavata Purana (2016).
Yudit Kornberg Greenberg is the George D. and Harriet W. Cornell endowed chair of religion, and founding director of the Jewish Studies Program at Rollins College. Her most recent book is The Body in Religion: Crosscultural Perspectives (2017).
