Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 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 Part One: Historical Encounters 3. Lexical Borrowings in Biblical Hebrew from Indian Languages as Carriers of Ideas and Technical Concepts 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 Part Two: Cultural Resonances 8. Veda and Torah: The World 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 Contributors Notes Index

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