Contributors

Contributors Contributors Vll Jonathan R. Herman received his Ph.D. in Chinese Religion from Harvard University and is currently Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Philosophy at Georgia State University. He is the author ofI and Tao: Martin Buber's Encounter with Chuang Tzu (Albany: SUNY, 1996) and several articles on hermeneutics and comparataive mysticism. Barbara Holdrege is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research as a comparative historian of religions has focused on historical and textual studies of Hindu and Jewish traditions. She is the author of Veda and Torah: Transcending the Textuality ofScripture (State University of New York Press, 1996), an edited collection Ritual and Power, Journal ofRitual Studies 4, No.2 (1990), and numerous articles on representations of scripture in the rabbinic and kabbalistic traditions and the brahmanical tradition. Harold Kasimow is George Drake Professor of Religious Studies at Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa. His early training was at the Talmudic Academy ofYeshiva University. In 1979 Kasimow wrote Divine-Human Encounter: A Study of Abraham Joshua Heschel. He edited No Religion Is an Island: Abraham Joshua Heschel and Interreligious Dialogue in 1991. Kasimow is also the author of articles on interfaith dialogue that have been published in the United States, England, India, and Japan. In 1988-89, he was visiting professor at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. Since then, he has spent several summers working on Zen Buddhism in Kamakura, Japan, in order to advance mutual understanding between Buddhists and Jews. Nathan Katz is professor and chair of religious studies at Florida International University. Among his dozen books are Buddhist Images ofHuman Peifection (2nd ed., 1989) and The Last Jews ofCochin: Jewish Identity in Hindu India (1993, co-authored with Ellen S. Goldbert). Dr. Katz has been awarded four Fulbright grants and has been named a "master teacher" four times by the Florida Humanities Council. He is featured in a five-part video series, "Reconnecting East and West: Judaism and Eastern Religions," and is portrayed in Rodger Kamenetz's best-seller, The Jew in the Lotus. Judith Linzer is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice with offices in Berkeley and Hayward, California. Dr. Linzer's work focuses on religious/spiritual, interfaith, family/child custody, and women's issues. She is a rabbinic student with Vlll SHOFAR Spring 1999 Vol. 17, No.3 ALEPH, Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi's Jewish renewal program. She co-taught the class "Buddhist, Christian, Jewish Encounter" at Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, along with a Buddhist priest and a Catholic graduate student. During the past twenty-five years, she has practiced both Zen meditation and yoga. She has also been actively involved in Jewish religious feminism, the havurah movement, and New Jewish Agenda. Sandra B. Lubarsky is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Assistant Dean of graduate Studies at Northern Arizona University. Her interests are in contemporary Jewish theology and dialogue between process theology and modem Judaism. She is the author of Tolerance and Transformation: Jewish Approaches to Religious Pluralism (1990) and coeditor ofJewish Theology and Process Thought (forthcoming). ...