"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 affinities between Hindu and Jewish philosophy and religion" --.

• 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-Shirim
  • 10 On the Comparative Realization of Aesthetic Consciousness in Kabbalah and Tantra
  • 11 On the AUM and the Tetragrammaton
  • Epilogue
• Index
• About the Contributors