Between Jerusalem and Benares : comparative studies in Judaism and Hinduism / edited by Hananya Goodman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goodman, Hananya, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judaism--Relations--Hinduism.

Judaism.

Hinduism--Relations--Judaism.

Hinduism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (362 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book stands at the crossroads between Jerusalem and Benares and opens a long awaited conversation between two ancient religious traditions. It represents the first serious attempt by a group of eminent scholars of Judaic and Indian studies to take seriously the cross-cultural resonances among the Judaic and Hindu traditions.The essays in the first part of the volume explore the historical connections and influences between the two traditions, including evidence of borrowed elements and the adaptation of Jewish Indian communities to Hindu culture. The essays in the second part focus primarily on resonances between particular conceptual complexes and practices in the two traditions, including comparative analyses of representations of Veda and Torah, legal formulations of dharma and halakhah, and conceptions of union with the Divine in Hindu Tantra and Kabbalah.

Contents:

Intro

Between Jerusalem and Benares

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

1. Introduction: Judaism and Hinduism: Cultural Resonances

2. The Love and Hate of Hinduism in the Work of Jewish Scholars

Part One: Historical Encounters

3. Lexical Borrowings in Biblical Hebrew from Indian Languages as Carriers of Ideas and Technical Concepts

4. Abraham and the Upanishads

5. Between Jews and Greeks: The Indian Model

6. A Hindu Response to the Written Torah

7. Yom Kippur: The Festival of Closing the Doors

Part Two: Cultural Resonances

8. Veda and Torah: The World Embodied in Scripture

9. From Dharma to Law

10. Union and Unity in Hindu Tantrism

11. Union and Unity in Kabbalah

12. Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook and Sri Aurobindo: Towards a Comparison

Contributors

Notes

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

Y

Z.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-338) and index.

ISBN:

1-4384-0437-9

OCLC:

834142732