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Between Jerusalem and Benares: Comparative Studies in Judaism and Hinduism »

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Authors: Hananya Goodman
ISBN-13: 9780791417164, ISBN-10: 0791417166
Format: Paperback
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Date Published: October 1994
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Hananya Goodman

Book Synopsis

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
1Introduction: Judaism and Hinduism: Cultural Resonances1
2The Love and Hate of Hinduism in the Work of Jewish Scholars15
3Lexical Borrowings in Biblical Hebrew from Indian Languages as Carriers of Ideas and Technical Concepts25
4Abraham and the Upanishads33
5Between Jews and Greeks: The Indian Model41
6A Hindu Response to the Written Torah55
7Yom Kippur: The Festival of Closing the Doors85
8Veda and Torah: The Word Embodied in Scripture103
9From Dharma to Law181
10Union and Unity in Hindu Tantrism195
11Union and Unity in Kabbalah223
12Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook and Sri Aurobindo: Towards a Comparison243
Contributors267
Notes269
Index339

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