Between Jerusalem and Benares : Comparative Studies in Judaism and Hinduism/edited by Hananya Goodman

.. Reprint. Delhi, Sri Satguru, 1997, xiii, 344 p., ISBN 81-7030-522-5.

Contents: Preface/David Shulman. 1. Introduction : Judaism and
Hinduism: cultural resonances/Hananya Goodman. 2. The love and hate of
Hinduism in the work of Jewish Scholars/Wendy Doniger. I. Historical
encounters : 3. Lexical borrowings in biblical Hebrew from Indian
languages as carriers of ideas and technical conepts/Chaim Rabin. 4.
Abraham and the Upanishads/David Flusser. 5. Between Jews and Greeks:
the Indian model/Francis Schmidt. 6. A Hindu response to the Written
Torah/D. Dennis Hudson. 7. Yom Kippur: the festival of closing the
doors/Shalva Weil. II. Cultural resonances : 8. Veda and Torah: the
word embodied in scripture/Barbara A. Holdrege. 9. From Dharma to law/
Bernard S. Jackson. 10. Union and unity in Hindu Tantrism/Elizabeth
Chalier-Visuvalingam. 11. Union and unity in Kabbalah/Charles Mopsik.
12. Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook and Sri Aurobindo: towards a comparison/
Margaret Chatterjee. Notes. Index.

"This book stands at he 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 analysis of
representations of Veda and Torah, legal formulations of dharma and
halakhah, and conceptions of union with the Divine in Hindu Tantra and
Kabbalah."
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