Dharma and Halacha

Ithamar Theodoris senior lecturer of Hindu studies at Zefat Academic College and director of the Hindu-Jewish Studies Program at The University of Haifa. His most recent book is The Fifth Veda in Hinduism; Philosophy, Poetry and Devotion in the Bhagavata Purana (2016).Yudit Kornberg Greenberg is the George D. and Harriet W. Cornell endowed chair of religion, and founding director of the Jewish Studies Program at Rollins College. Her most recent book is The Body in Religion: Crosscultural Perspectives (2017).

• Yudit Kornberg Greenberg - Introduction Part I Ritual and SacrificeRachel Fell McDermott and Daniel Polish - Image Worship and Sacrifice: Legitimacy, Illegitimacy, and Theological Debate.Tracy Pintchman - Shakthi Garbha as Ark of the Covenant at an American Hindu Goddess Temple.Phillipe Bornet - Working towards a More Perfect World: Hospitality and Domestic Practices in Indian and Jewish Normative Texts.Part II EthicsIthamar Theodor - Dharma and Halacha: Reflections on Hindu and Jewish Ethics.Aaron Gross - Humane Subjects and Eating Animals: Comparing Implied Anthropologies in Jewish and Jain Dietary Practice.Purushottama Bilimoria - Animal Justice and Moral MendacityShoshana Razel Gordon Guedalia - Lethal Wives and Impure Widows: The Widow Marriage Taboo in Jewish and Hindu Law and Lore.Part III TheologyYudit Kornberg Greenberg - Reading Eros, Sacred Place, and Divine Love in the Gitagovinda and Shir-Ha-Shirim.Paul Martin - On the Comparative Realization of Aesthetic Consciousness in

This is a very welcome volume, the first edited collection of comparisons of Hinduism and Judaism since Hananya Goodman’s pioneering 1994 book (Goodman 1994). It is welcome because of its range and the quality of the contributors’ scholarship, and also because there are many fewer book-length studies than one might imagine. . . . this is a very well done and important work that will advance its field significantly. I recommend it highly for scholars, students, and other interested persons.