Publications

Book:  Jewish Approaches to Hinduism: a history of ideas from Judah Ha-Levi to Jacob Sapir (12th through 19th centuries) Routledge, 2022.   See Jewish Approaches

“Jews and Other Peoples of Southern India: excerpts from the travelogue, Even Sapir, by Rabbi Jacob Sapir, based on his journey along the Malabar coast and beyond, 1860,” pp. 282-306 in Malabar in the Indian Ocean: Cosmopolitanism in a Maritime Historical Region, ed., Mahmood Kooria and Michael Pearson, Oxford University Press, India, 2018

“David d’Beth Hillel and Jacob Sapir: their encounters with temple Hinduism in 19th-century India,” pp. 19-39 in PaRDeS: Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien, the journal of the German Association of Jewish Studies, Vol. 23, 2017.

“Jews and Other Peoples of Southern India: excerpts from the travelogue, Even Sapir, by Rabbi Jacob Sapir, based on his journey along the Malabar coast and beyond, 1860,” pp. 282-306 in Malabar in the Indian Ocean: Cosmopolitanism in a Maritime Historical Region, ed., Mahmood Kooria and Michael Pearson, Oxford University Press, India, 2018

“Jacob Sapir’s Journey through Southern India in 1860: Four Chapters on Indian Life from Even Sapir, Translated, Annotated, and Introduced,” Journal of Indo-Judaic Studies, Vol. 13 (2013): pp. 73-95.  http://marksr.academic.wlu.edu/files/2018/10/Marks-Jacob-Sapirs-Journey-through-India-in-1860-JIJS-2013.pdf

“Hinduism, Torah, and Travel: Jacob Sapir in India,” Shofar 30:2 (Winter 2012): pp. 26-51.

Review Essay on Letters to a Buddhist Jew, in Journal of Indo-Judaic Studies, Vol. 9 (2007): pp. 96-100.

“Hindus and Hinduism in Medieval Jewish Literature,” pp. 57-73 in Indo-Judaic Studies in the Twenty-First Century: a view from the margin, ed. Nathan Katz, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

“The Garden in the Middle,” pp. 71-84 in Beside Still Waters: Jews, Christians, and the Way of the Buddha, Wisdom Press, 2003.

“Abraham, the Easterners, and India: Jewish interpretations of Genesis 25:6,” Journal of Indo-Judaic Studies, Vol. 3 (2000):  pp. 49-70.  http://marksr.academic.wlu.edu/files/2018/10/Abraham-the-Easterners-and-India-by-R-Marks-article-in-JIJS.pdf

Review Essay: “Jewish-Buddhist Meetings,” Shofar: An Interdisci­plinary Journal in Jewish Studies, 17.3  (Spring 1999): pp. 93-98.

Book: The Image of Bar Kokhba in Traditional Jewish Literature: False Messiah and National Hero, Penn State Press, 1994.

“Jewish Path, Buddhist Path: Do They Meet?” Menorah Review 35 (Fall 1985).

“Teaching Judaism in Thailand,” pp. 67-100 in Approaches to Modern Judaism. Vol. II.  ed., Marc Lee Raphael. Brown Judaic Studies 56.  Chico: Scholars Press, 1984. http://marksr.academic.wlu.edu/files/2018/10/Teaching-Judaism-in-Thailand-rev-Lndscp-columns.pdf

“Dangerous Hero: Rabbinic Attitudes Toward Legendary Warriors.” HUCA 54 (1983): pp. 181-194.