Rabbi Alan Brill, a Religion Professor who teaches in the Department’s Jewish-Christian Studies Graduate Program, will be giving a talk at Emory University titled:

“A Rabbi on the Ganges: A Jewish Hindu Encounter”

Below is the description of the talk and event details:

Professor Brill recently spent a sabbatical in India teaching Judaism and encountering Hinduism from within the Brahmin world. He notes that Indian works on religion typically reference Judaism based on the ancient practices of Leviticus, with its animal sacrifice, while Judaism understands Indian religions using the categories of Talmudic understanding of idolatry. Neither side understands much about the other one and its living reality. Exploring the commonalities of ideas on priestly rituals, purity, meditation, and text study, this talk will look at how what is first seen as completely other and foreign, can, with asking the proper questions and an appropriate lens, be appreciated on its own terms and create a space for a shared spiritual language of understanding.

Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 7:30pm

Oxford Presentation Auditorium
311 Oxford Road Building
1390 Oxford Road; Atlanta 30307
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