David Dean Shulman

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David Dean Shulman

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According to Wikipedia, David Dean Shulman is an Israeli Indologist, poet and peace activist, known for his work on the history of religion in South India, Indian poetics, Tamil Islam, Dravidian linguistics, and Carnatic music. Bilingual in Hebrew and English, he has mastered Sanskrit, Tamil, Hindi, and Telugu, and reads Greek, Russian, French, German, Persian, Arabic and Malayalam. He was formerly Professor of Indian Studies and Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and professor in the now defunct Department of Indian, Iranian and Armenian Studies. Presently he holds a chair as Renee Lang Professor of Humanistic Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has been a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities since 1988.

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The Cult of the Goddess Pattini (1985) (145)
Tamil Temple Myths: Sacrifice and Divine Marriage in the South Indian Saiva Tradition (1981) (115)
The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society (1985) (113)
Textures of time : writing history in South India 1600-1800 (2000) (109)
The king and the clown in South Indian myth and poetry (1987) (78)
Tidings of the King: A Translation and Ethnohistorical Analysis of the Rayavacakamu (1994) (54)
Dream cultures : explorations in the comparative history of dreaming (1999) (46)
More than Real (2012) (40)
Untying the knot : on riddles and other enigmatic modes (1999) (26)
The Hungry God: Hindu Tales of Filicide and Devotion (1993) (26)
Self and Self-Transformation in the History of Religions (2003) (26)
Classical Telugu poetry : an anthology (2002) (26)
On South Indian Bandits and Kings (1980) (25)
Symbols of Substance: Court and State in Nayaka Period Tamilnadu. (1995) (23)
More than Real: A History of the Imagination in South India (2012) (23)
God inside out: Síva's Game of Dice@@@God inside out: Siva's Game of Dice (1998) (22)
Dark Hope: Working for Peace in Israel and Palestine (2007) (20)
Pastoral Deities in Western India (1989) (19)
Innovations and turning points : toward a history of kāvya literature (2014) (18)
From Hire to Liar: The Role of Deception in the Worlplace (2006) (18)
The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India . By Sheldon Pollock. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2006. 703 pp. $75.00 (cloth). (2007) (17)
‘A Cloud Turned Goose’ (2006) (16)
The Wisdom of Poets: Studies in Tamil, Telugu, and Sanskrit (2001) (15)
The Scent of Memory in Hindu South India (1987) (15)
When God is a Customer: Telugu Courtesan Songs by Ksetrayya and Others (1994) (13)
The Mandukya Upanisad and the Agama Sastra: An Investigation into the Meaning of the Vedanta (1990) (12)
On Asking “Why?” (2020) (11)
The Serpent and the Sacrifice: An Anthill Myth from Tiruvārūr (1978) (11)
The Rise of the Religious Significance of Rama (1982) (11)
Maya Divine and Human (1978) (10)
Divine Order and Divine Evil in the Tamil Tale of Rāma (1979) (10)
The Enemy Within: Idealism and Dissent in South Indian Hinduism (1984) (10)
The Murderous Bride: Tamil Versions of the Myth of Devī and the Buffalo-Demon (1976) (9)
On being human in the sanskrit epic: The riddle of Nala (1994) (9)
4. A PRAGMATIC RESPONSE (2007) (9)
'Siva in the Forest of Pines: An Essay on Sorcery and Self-Knowledge (2004) (8)
Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy and Dissent in India (1984) (8)
Songs of the harsh devotee : the Tēvāram of Cuntaramūrttināyan̲ār (1992) (8)
The Men who Would be King? The Politics of Expansion in Early Seventeenth-Century Northern Tamilnadu (1990) (8)
Pulmonary barotrauma including orbital emphysema following inhalation of toxic gas (2004) (7)
Śrīnātha : the poet who made gods and kings (2012) (7)
Building in Sound (2012) (6)
Illumination, Imagination, Creativity: Rājaśekhara, Kuntaka, and Jagannātha on Pratibhā (2008) (6)
[Gilgul] = Gilgul : essays on transformation, revolution, and permanence in the history of religions, dedicated to R.J. Zwi Werblowsky (1987) (6)
Terror of Symbols and Symbols of Terror: Notes on the Myth of Śiva as Sthāṇu (1986) (6)
The Yogi's human self: Tāyumānavar in the Tamil mystical tradition (1991) (6)
"Self-Surrender" "Peace" "Compassion" & "The mission of the goose" : poems and prayers from South India (2009) (5)
On the Early Use of Fan in Baseball (1996) (5)
Is There an Indian Connection to Sefer yeṣirah? (2002) (5)
A New Imperial Idiom in the Sixteenth Century: Krishnadevaraya and His Political Theory of Vijayanagara (2011) (5)
First grammarian, first poet: A south Indian vision of cultural origins (2001) (5)
Syllables of Sky: Studies in South Indian Civilization in Honour of Velcheru Narayana Rao (1997) (4)
The sound of the kiss, or, The story that must never be told (2002) (4)
God on the Hill: Temple Poems from Tirupati (2005) (4)
The Prospects of Memory (1998) (4)
Spring, Heat, Rains: A South Indian Diary (2008) (4)
Freedom and Despair: Notes from the South Hebron Hills (2018) (4)
A PRAGMATIC RESPONSE (2007) (4)
5. Fire and Flood: The Testing of Sītā in Kampaṉ's Irāmāvatāram (1991) (4)
On the Goodness of Despair (2014) (3)
Antedating the OED on Americanisms (1988) (3)
The Mumuksuppati of Pillai Lokacarya with Manavalamamuni's Commentary (1990) (3)
Tampering with Nature (2012) (2)
The Green Goddess of Tirumullaivayil (1980) (2)
The Big Apple and Its Language@@@The City in Slang: New York Life and Popular Speech (1995) (2)
The Epic of Palnāḍu: A Study and Translation of Palnāṭi Vīrula Katha, A Telugu Oral Tradition from Andhra Pradesh, India . By Gene H. Roghair. pp. xx, 399, front., 8 pl. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1982. £22.50. (1984) (2)
of Not-for-Profit Law (2008) (2)
Moral Gray Zones: Side Productions, Identity and Regulation in an Aeronautic Plant (2009) (2)
An Annotated Bibliography of Cryptography (1976) (2)
How To Bring A Goddess Into Being Through Visible Sound (2007) (2)
The Cliche as Ritual and Instrument: Iconic Puns in Kampan's "Iramavataram" (1978) (2)
The Cliché as Ritual and Instrument (1978) (2)
The MACBETH Test Message (1979) (1)
Book Review:Siva's Warriors: The Basava Purana of Palkuriki Somanatha Velcheru Narayana Rao, Gene H. Roghair (1993) (1)
More on the Words of Scrabble (1986) (1)
A Reply to Kahn's Review (1977) (1)
Spanish Words in American English (1955) (1)
EMBRACING THE SUBJECT: HARSA'S PLAY WITHIN A PLAY (1997) (1)
Empirical Observation and Embodied Nature in Sixteenth-century South India (2016) (1)
The Anthropologist and the Native: On Singularity: What Sanskrit Poeticians Believe to be Real (2011) (1)
On Being Unfree: Fences, Roadblocks, and the Iron Cage of Palestine (2008) (1)
Ambivalence and Longing: Vyāsa’s Curse on Kāśī (1998) (1)
A Curious Cryptic Composition (1980) (1)
4. Growing a Kingdom: The Goddess of Depth in Vizianagaram (2014) (1)
No Brooklynese, Please! (1996) (1)
The Anthropology of the Avatar in Kampan's Irāmāvatāram (1987) (1)
Śiva in the forest of pinea : an essay on soecery and self-knowledge (2004) (0)
Note on Transliteration (2016) (0)
The Rigveda: The Earliest Religious Poetry of India, written by Joel P. Brereton and Stephanie W. Jamison (2017) (0)
An Unknown Cipher Disk (1984) (0)
Two masterpieces of Kūṭiyāṭṭam : Mantrāṅkam and Aṅgulīyāṅkam (2019) (0)
Poets of the Tamil Anthologies: Ancient Poems of Love and War . By George L. Hart, III. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1979. vii, 212 pp. Further Reading. $16.50. (1980) (0)
IV. A Kingdom of Clowns: Brahmins, jesters, and Magicians (1989) (0)
Editor's Note (2008) (0)
Friedhelm Hardy. The Religious Culture of India: Power, Love and Wisdom . Cambridge Studies in Religious Traditions, 4. Pp. 613. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.) £55.00 ($74.95). (1996) (0)
Index to volume XLII (1990) (0)
The Marriage of Bhāvanā and King Best: A Sixteenth-Century South Indian Theory of Imagination (2010) (0)
Bh. Krishnamurti and J. P. L. Gwynn: A grammar of Modern Telugu . xxii, 459 pp. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1985 [pub. 1986]. £25. (1989) (0)
Seeing into the Mind in Early Modern South India (2022) (0)
Second Budding: The Musical Self (2016) (0)
How Úrvashi was won (2009) (0)
VIII. Postscript: In the Absenu of the King of Kings (1989) (0)
Inde : études shivaïtes Studies in K ūṭ iy āṭṭ am : The Living Sanskrit Theatre of Kerala Conferences held in 2013-2014 (2016) (0)
HEESTERMAN, J. C., The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society-Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1985, x + 255 pages. $32.00 clothbound, $14.95 paperback (1985) (0)
The Demon's Daughter: A Love Story from South India (2006) (0)
Abstracts and Biobliographical Notes (2006) (0)
A South Indian Canon of Visible Sound (2019) (0)
Ethics and Civil Society (2008) (0)
II. THE PHENOMENON OF LOCALIZATION (1980) (0)
5. Toward a Yoga of the Imagination (2012) (0)
Book Reviews : T.S. Maxwell, Viśvarūpa, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1988 (Oxford University South Asian Studies Series), xvi+303 pp., 70 black-and- white plates, Rs. 225 (1990) (0)
Farewell Bil'in (2007) (0)
Nicholas B. Dirks: The hollow crown: an ethnohistory of an Indian kingdom. (Cambridge South Asia Series, no. 39), xxix 458 pp. Cambridge etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1987 [pub. 1988]. £35, £49.50. (1989) (0)
A Rare Book of American Proverbs (2000) (0)
The Journal of Oriental Research Madras, Vols. LVI-LXII: Drs. S. S. Janaki Felicitation Volume (1994) (0)
III. Brahmin Gatekeepers (1989) (0)
A Novella in Two Voices (2012) (0)
The Imperial Moment, Truth, and Sound (2016) (0)
Studies in Kūṭiyāṭṭam : The Living Sanskrit Theatre of Kerala. Conferences held in 2013-2014 (2015) (0)
Reflections on Ramayana in Kutiyattam (2021) (0)
An Impractical Cipher (1983) (0)
1. Mind-Born Worlds (2012) (0)
What Happens When a Poem Is Translated into a Poem (2012) (0)
Murukan, the mango and Ekāmbareśvara-Śiva: Fragments of a Tamil creation myth? (1979) (0)
II. Royal Masks (1989) (0)
First Budding: Tamil from the Inside (2016) (0)
On Vladimir Jankélévitch and the Joys of Remorse: The Bad Conscience, Vladimir Jankélévitch (2018) (0)
Book Reviews : KUNAL CHAKRABARTI, Religious Process: The Puranas and the Making of a Regional Tradition, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. x + 368, Rs 645 (2003) (0)
Parody and subversion in remembered verses of South India (1996) (0)
Valuable Slang Studies@@@Studies in Slang (1991) (0)
Nicknames of States and Their Inhabitants (1952) (0)
Karmic Passages (2010) (0)
Book Reviews : ROMILA THAPAR, Śakuntalā: Texts, Readings, Histories, Delhi: Kali for Women, 1999, pp. x + 272, Rs 400 (2002) (0)
III. THE CREATIVE SACRIFICE (1980) (0)
New words and word forms in the Atharva-Veda Paippalada (Kanda 5) (2010) (0)
Book Review: Māṟaṉ akappŏruḷum tiruppatikkovaiyum: The Māṟaṉ Akappŏruḷ and the Tiruppatikkovai of Tirukkurukaippĕrumāḷ Kavirāyar. A Treatise on Tamil poetics illustrated with a narrative poem, edited by T.V. Gopal Iyer (2015) (0)
11. Toward Conclusion (2012) (0)
Riddles and Enigmas@@@Untying the Knot: On Riddles and Other Enigmatic Modes (1999) (0)
Book Reviews A GRAND TOUR OF THE FIELD OF THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS Gilgul: Essays on Transformation, Revolution and Permanence in the History of Religions: Dedicated to R. J. Zwi Werblowsky. Edited by S. SHAKED, (2008) (0)
New Words and Proverbs@@@The Oxford Dictionary of New Words: A Popular Guide to Words in the News@@@A Dictionary of American Proverbs (1994) (0)
A Tamil Modernity (2016) (0)
Muruka, the mango and Ekāmbareśvara-Śiva: Fragments of a Tamil creation myth? (1979) (0)
Book Reviews : KARINE SCHOMER and W.H. McLEOD eds., The Sants: Studies in a Devotional Tradition of India, Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 1987, ix + 472 pp., with index, select bibliography and colour plate. Rs. 300 (1989) (0)
OBEYESEKERE, Gananath, The Cult of the Goddess Pattini.- Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1984. xvii + 629 pp., 25 color plates. No price indicated (1986) (0)
4. Poetics 2: Illumination (2012) (0)
10. The Marriage of Bhāvanā and Best (2012) (0)
VI. All the King's Women (1989) (0)
V. THE DEMON DEVOTEE (1980) (0)
VII. Bandits and Otkr Tragic Heroes (1989) (0)
7. Sīmantinī: Irrevocable Imaginings (2012) (0)
2. Poets, Playwrights, Painters (2012) (0)
Preface: Kalhaá¹‡aâ€™s (2013) (0)
Checking Citation Dates@@@A Chronological English Dictionary (1990) (0)
The mythology of the Tamil Śaiva Talapurāṇam [microform] (1976) (0)
Truth and Lies in South Hebron (2013) (0)
What Is Mantrāṅkam? (2019) (0)
V. Royal Comedies and Errors (1989) (0)
3. Singularity, Inexhaustibility, Insight: What Sanskrit Poeticians Think Is Real (2012) (0)
Reading and re-reading the Vasu-caritramu (2019) (0)
Book reviews and notices : Contents (1996) (0)
The Poetics of Tamil Devotion (1989) (0)
Attipat Krishnaswami Ramanujan (1929–1993) (1994) (0)
An AEIOU Examination (1979) (0)
The Verses on the Precious Jewel Prosody Composed by Amitacākarar, with the Commentary by Kuṇacākarar The Verses on the Precious Jewel Prosody Composed by Amitacakarar, with the Commentary by Kunacakarar (1999) (0)
8. Nala in Tenkasi and the New Economy of Mind (2012) (0)
I. Introduction: Labyrinths and Mirrors (1989) (0)
A lover's guide to Warangal = : The krīḍâbhirāmamu (2002) (0)
Preface: Kalhaṇa’s Rājataraṅgiṇī: What is it? (2013) (0)
Book Reviews : RICHARD F. GOMBRICH ed., Oxford University Papers on India, Vol. 2, Part 1: Indian Ritual and its Exegesis, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1988, xvii + 175pp + index, Rs. 125 (1990) (0)
David Niv – 1950 to 2007 (2007) (0)
IV. THE DIVINE MARRIAGE (1980) (0)
6. Early Modern Bhāvanā (2012) (0)
Another Solution to the Sherlockian Cryptogram (1980) (0)
Beyond the Merely Modern (2016) (0)
Playing dice with God: Myths of Siva and the feminine (1992) (0)
The Story of Manu (2015) (0)
Proleptic Pasts and Involuted Causalities in KūṭIyāṭṭam* (2021) (0)
Apples in America (1954) (0)
Our Own Larousse Gastronomique@@@The Dictionary of American Food and Drink (1987) (0)
Baseball's Bright Lexicon (1951) (0)
9. True Fiction (2012) (0)
Republic of Syllables (2016) (0)
Independent Repeated Sleeping Beauty (2011) (0)
Map: Tamiḻnāțu, Major Shrines (1980) (0)
A Sherlockian Cryptogram (1979) (0)
King and Brahmin in South Indian Kingship: A Symbolic Perspective@@@The King and the Clown in South Indian Myth and Poetry (1988) (0)

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