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Between Jerusalem and Benares: Comparative Studies in Judaism and Hinduism
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Between Jerusalem and Benares: Comparative Studies in Judaism and Hinduism Hardcover - 1994

by Hananya Goodman (Editor)


From the publisher

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.

Details

  • Title Between Jerusalem and Benares: Comparative Studies in Judaism and Hinduism
  • Author Hananya Goodman (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 344
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher State University of New York Press
  • Date October 1994
  • ISBN 9780791417157 / 0791417158
  • Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Jewish
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 92047229
  • Dewey Decimal Code 296.387