Yudit Kornberg Greenberg, PhD

Dr. Yudit Kornberg Greenberg is the George D. and Harriet W. Cornell Endowed Chair of Religion and Founding Director of the Jewish Studies Program at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. Her fields of teaching and research include modern and contemporary Jewish thought, comparative religion, women and religion, cross-cultural views of love and the body, and gender, sexuality, and religion.  Dr. Greenberg is the author of Better than Wine: Love, Poetry and Prayer in the Thought of Franz Rosenzweig, the 2 volume Encyclopedia of Love in World Religions, nominated for the American Academy of Religion Book award for 2009, and editor of From Spinoza to Levinas: Hermeneutical, Ethical, and Political Issues in Modern and Contemporary Jewish Philosophy.  She has written numerous articles and essays in modern and contemporary Jewish thought, and in comparative Hindu and Jewish philosophy and religion. Her recent books include The Body in Religion: Crosscultural Perspectives, Bloomsbury Academic, 2018, and Dharma and Halacha: Comparative Studies in Hindu-Jewish Philosophy and Religion, Lexington Books, 2018.

Dr. Greenberg lectures nationally and internationally on philosophical topics related to love, body, and gender. She has been active in numerous scholarly societies and organizations such as the American Academy of Religion, where she served as co-chair of the Studies in Judaism Section and the Comparative Study of Judaisms and Hinduisms Group, the Association for Jewish Studies, the Parliament of the Worlds’ Religions, and the International Comparative Literature Association. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion and is General Editor of Studies in Judaism Series for Peter Lang Academic Publishers. Dr. Greenberg is a recipient of numerous awards including three Fulbright Scholar Awards; the Cornell Distinguished Faculty Award, the Arthur Vining Davis Award, and the Presidential Award for the Promotion of Diversity and Inclusion from Rollins College; the Templeton Course Prize in Science and Religion, and the Harvard University Pluralism Project Grant. She was a Fulbright-Nehru Scholar in 2015 in India, and a Visiting Research Fellow in 2017 at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. During the Summer of 2018, she was a Research Fellow at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften der Goethe-Universität, and starting in January 2019, she will be a Fulbright-Nehru Scholar at the University of Mumbai in India.

Books

Islam, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism, Encyclopedia of Indian Religions, Co-Editor with  Zayn R. Kassam and Jehan Bagli. Dordrecht: Springer, 2018

Dharma and Halacha: Comparative Studies in Hindu-Jewish Philosophy and Religion, Co-Editor with Ithamar Theodore, Lexington Publishers, 2018

The Body in Religion: Cross-cultural Perspectives. London: Bloomsbury Academic, December 2017

From Spinoza to Levinas: Hermeneutical, Ethical, and Political Issues in Modern and Contemporary Jewish Philosophy, Edited with Zeev Levy. New York: Peter Lang, 2009

The Encyclopedia of Love in World Religions (2 Volumes), Author and Editor, Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2008

Better than Wine: Love, Poetry, and Prayer in the Thought of Franz Rosenzweig, AAR Series Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion, Atlanta: Scholars Press/Oxford University Press, 1997

Articles and Book Chapters

Integrating The Natural, the Divine and the Erotic in the Gita Govinda and Shir Ha-Shirim, Finding Radha: The Quest for Love, co-edited by 

Namita Gokhale and Malashri Lal. Penguin, 2018 

Introduction and Reading Eros, Sacred Place, and Divine Love in the Gitagovinda and Shir Ha-Shirim, Dharma and Halacha: Comparative Studies in Hindu-Jewish Philosophy and Religion. Co-Edited by Ithamar Theodore and Yudit Greenberg, Lexington Publishers, 2018

Women in the Jewish Tradition: Contemporary and Future Trends, Religion and the Future of Women, Edited by Arvind Sharma. Albany, New York: SUNY Press, 2019

Religion and Ritual: Contemporary Views and Traditional Practices, with Hanna Cody in A Cultural History of Hair in the Modern Age, Edited by Geraldine Biddle-Perry. London: Bloomsbury Publishers, 2018

Erotic Representations of the Divine, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion, December 2016

Hinduism and Judaism, Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Vol. VI, 2014

The Languages of Love and Desire in the Gitagovinda and the Song of Songs, Journal of Vaishnava Studies, Vol. 22, No. 1, Fall 2013

Hindu-Jewish Dialogue: A New Tradition in the Making, Between Mumbai and Manila, Ed. Manfred Hutter, Bonn University Press, 2013

Love in the Jewish Tradition, The Cambridge Dictionary of Jewish Religion, History, and Culture, Cambridge U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Hindu-Jewish Summits 2007-2008: A Postmodern Religious Encounter, Interreligious Insight, January 2009

Prayer for Redemption and Redemption as Prayer in Judaism, Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought, vol. 56, 1-2, 2009

From Death to Immortality: Eros in Plato, Rosenzweig, and Levinas, The Proceedings of the International Symposium of the Brazilian Society for Phenomenology, 2007

What Does Revelation in the Star of Redemption Reveal? Negotiating the Spaces between Rosenzweig’s Life and Thought. The Proceedings of the International Congress of Franz Rosenzweig’s New Thinking, Edited by Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik, 2006

Gene Borowitz’ Renewing the Covenant: A Theology for the Postmodern Jew, in Reviewing the Covenant, ed. Ochs with Borowitz, Albany, New York: SUNY Press, 2000

The Choosing, Not the Chosen People, in Jewish Identity in the Postmodern Age, Paragon House Press, 1999

Towards a Dialogical Postmodern Jewish Philosophy, in Reasoning After Revelation: Dialogues in Postmodern Jewish Philosophy, co-authored by Gibbs, Kepnes, and Ochs, Westview Press, 1998

Love and Reason in the Thought of Franz Rosenzweig and Hermann Cohen, The European Legacy 2:1,   1997

Kabbalah and Postmodern Jewish Philosophy: A Response, Textual Reasoning, Journal of the Postmodern Jewish Philosophy Network, Vol. 4, Number 3, 1997

The Hermeneutic Turn in Franz Rosenzweig’s Theory of Revelation, Interpreting Judaism in a Postmodern Age, Edited by Steven Kepnes, New York University Press, 1996

F. Rosenzweig and M. Heidegger on the Limits of Language as Poetry, History of European Ideas, Vol. 20, Number 4, 1995

A Postmodern Jewish Critique of Rosenzweig's Speech Thinking and the Concept of Revelation, in Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, Vol. II, No. 1, 1992

Book Reviews

Review of Benjamin Sommer, Revelation and Authority: Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition, in Reading Religion. August 2018

Review of Bhattacharya Saxena, Neela. Absent Mother God of the West: A Kali Lover’s Journey into Christianity and Judaism in the Journal of Indo-Judaic Studies, August 2018

Jewish Life and Thought; The Hebrew Bible; Love and Sex in the Hebrew Bible; Mysteries and Marvels in the Bible (Rfla), Modern and Contemporary Jewish Thought; Modern and Contemporary Jewish Literature; Portraits of the Modern Jew in American Film and Fiction; Introduction to Modern Hebrew and Contemporary Israeli Culture (RCC) Women in Judaism and Islam; Love, Eros, and Religion; Religion and the Body; Body in Religion: Crosscultural Perspectives (Honors); Jerusalem: History, Religion, Politics (Semester-long course; Field Study); Jewish New York (Field study); Introduction to Islam; Far Eastern Religions; Near Eastern Religions; Innovate, Create, Elevate your Spiritual Identity (Rfla); India and the Infinite (Field Study); Spiritual Technologies of Yoga, Meditation, and Prayer (Community Engagement); Jewish Life in Central Florida (Community Engagement); Women and Religion (Community Engagement); Religion and Science in Dialogue.