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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: Hindu-Jewish conversation
    sub title: root traditions in dialogue
  name:
    name part: McDermott, Rachel Fell
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Polish, Daniel F.
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mdu
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: This book engages historically and theologically with the Hindu and Jewish traditions, covering conceptions of the divine, religious heroes, women, devotional literature, theodicy, land and nationalist claims on it, and social differentiation and oppression. Scholarly considerations are enriched with actual conversations between Hindus and Jews.
  table of contents: Introduction: Why Compare Jewish and Hindu Traditions? -- 1. Image Worship: Legitimacy, Illegitimacy, and Theological Debate -- 2. Patterns of Perfection? Heroes and Holy People -- 3. Jewish Woman, Hindu Woman -- 4. Intimate Relations: Psalms and Bhakti Poetry -- 5. Why Do Bad Things Happen to Us? Comparative Reflections on Theodicy -- 6. The Land in Jewish and Hindu Traditions -- 7. The Uncomfortable Question of Caste (and Possible Jewish Analogues) -- Conclusion: Testing Theory in Lived Encounter.
  note: Rachel Fell McDermott and Daniel F. Polish.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-298) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Judaism
    topic: Relations
    topic: Hinduism
  subject:
    topic: Hinduism
    topic: Relations
    topic: Judaism
  classification: BM536.H5 M33 2024
  classification: 294.5/156
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Studies in comparative philosophy and religion
  identifier: 9781793646545
  identifier: 1793646546
  identifier: 9781793646552
  identifier: 2023049541
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 231024
    record change date: 20240614131410.1
    record identifier: in00004790056