@misc{MarksMuschHaussigetal.2018,
  author    = {Marks, Richard G. and Musch, Sebastian and Haußig, Hans-Michael and Weiss, Aleš and Albeck-Gidron, Rachel and Sigalow, Emily and Ariel, Yaakov S. and Niculescu, Mira and Landau, David and Rageth, Nina and Ichikawa, Hiroshi and Rohland, Eva and Czendze, Oskar and Reich, Tamar Chana and Schulz, Michael Karl and Arnold, Rafael D. and Anderl, Gabriele and Gempp-Friedrich, Tilmann and Liu, Yongqiang and Battenberg, J. Friedrich and Reichert, Carmen and Riemer, Nathanael and Krah, Markus and Thulin, Mirjam},
  title     = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien = JewBus, Jewish Hindus \& other Jewish Encounters with East Asian Religions},
  series = {PaRDeS},
  journal   = {PaRDeS},
  number    = {23},
  editor    = {Riemer, Nathanael and Albeck-Gidron, Rachel and Krah, Markus},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  isbn      = {978-3-86956-418-0},
  issn      = {1614-6492},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-402536},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {PaRDeS. Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien e.V., m{\"o}chte die fruchtbare und facettenreiche Kultur des Judentums sowie seine Ber{\"u}hrungspunkte zur Umwelt in den unterschiedlichen Bereichen dokumentieren. Daneben dient die Zeitschrift als Forum zur Positionierung der F{\"a}cher J{\"u}dische Studien und Judaistik innerhalb des wissenschaftlichen Diskurses sowie zur Diskussion ihrer historischen und gesellschaftlichen Verantwortung.},
  language  = {de}
}
@article{Marks2018,
  author    = {Marks, Richard G.},
  title     = {David d'Beth Hillel and Jacob Sapir},
  series = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien [23 (2017)] = JewBus, Jewish Hindus \& other Jewish Encounters with East Asian Religions},
  journal   = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien [23 (2017)] = JewBus, Jewish Hindus \& other Jewish Encounters with East Asian Religions},
  number    = {23},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  isbn      = {978-3-86956-418-0},
  issn      = {1614-6492},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-408884},
  pages     = {19 -- 39},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {Two 19th century rabbis born in Vilna and educated in its raditionalist rationalism interacted with India's temple Hinduism in different ways. Both were fascinated with Hindu worship and images, but David d'Beth Hillel entered temples and disputed with priests, while Jacob Sapir observed from outside, composing written pictures of Hindu images using a biblical vocabulary of abomination. D'Beth Hillel employed Hebrew linguistics to uncover secret meanings of Hindu words. However, both travelers interpreted Hindu religiosity similarly, as idolatrous worship. They explained this Hinduism historically as a survival of Judean idolatry brought to India by Jewish migrants, or as a survival from an ancient culture of idolatry that once filled the world. Both rabbis also perceived Jewish elements in Hinduism, which they explained from Jewish migrations of the past. The similarities in their conceptualizations of Hinduism point to a common Jewish worldview that constructed the world as opposing realms of revelation and idolatry, and also to common theories about how cultural change occurs through survivals, corruptions, and diffusion.},
  language  = {en}
}