Dharma and halacha : comparative studies in Hindu-Jewish philosophy and religion

Dharma and halacha : comparative studies in Hindu-Jewish philosophy and religion / edited by Ithamar Theodor and Yudit Kornberg Greenberg.

"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 affi...

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Other Authors: Theodor, Ithamar, 1959- (Editor), Greenberg, Yudit Kornberg (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London : Lexington Books, [2018]
Series:Studies in comparative philosophy and religion.
Subjects:
Judaism > Relations > Hinduism.
Hinduism > Relations > Judaism.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
Hinduism
Interfaith relations
Judaism
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half Title; Series Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Ritual and Sacrifice; 1 Image Worship and Sacrifice; 2 Shakthi Garbha as Ark of the Covenant at an American Hindu Goddess Temple; 3 Working toward a More Perfect World; Part II Ethics; 4 Dharma and Halacha; 5 Humane Subjects and Eating Animals; 6 Animal Justice and Moral Mendacity; 7 Lethal Wives and Impure Widows; Part III Theology; 8 The Guru and the Zaddik and the Testimony of the Holy Ones
  • 9 Reading Eros, Sacred Place, and Divine Love in the Gītāgovinda and Shir Ha-Shirim10 On the Comparative Realization of Aesthetic Consciousness in Kabbalah and Tantra; 11 On the AUM and the Tetragrammaton; Epilogue; Index; About the Contributors

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