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Tanakh (Hebrew Bible)
The Tanakh is the Hebrew Bible, the quintessential sacred text. The first five books of this comprise the Torah (or Pentateuch), the core sacred writings of the ancient Jews, traditionally written by Moses under divine inspiration.
Tanakh (Hebrew Bible).
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Talmud and Mishna
The Babylonian Talmud
Translated by M.L. Rodkinson [1918]
A massive ten volume abridgement of the Talmud, the Jewish
compendium of law and tradition, the only extensive public domain
translation.
Presented for the first time anywhere on the Internet at sacred-texts.com.
The Talmud
by Joseph Barclay [1878]
Seventeen representative tracts from the Talmud.
The Talmud: Selections
by H. Polano [1876]
A Talmud miscellany.
Sayings of the Jewish Fathers (Pirqe Aboth)tr. by Charles Taylor [1897]
A beautiful extract from the Talmud, which has been used as liturgy. Devoted to ethics with some mystical touches, the Pirqe Aboth is distinguished for its transparency and simplicity. This was one of the first English translations in modern times of any portion of the Talmud.
Hebraic LiteratureEdited by Maurice Harris [1901]
Extracts from the Talmud, Midrash and Kabbalah.
Tractate Sanhedrin, Mishnah and Toseftaby Herbert Danby [1919]
A key portion of the Mishna dealing with crime and punishment.
Tractate Berakothby A. Lukyn Williams [1921]
The Mishna about prayer.
Haggada
Legends of the Jews
by Louis Ginzberg [1909].
A huge collection of traditional stories which have grown up around the Bible narrative.
Kabbalah
The Kabbalah Unveiled
S.L. MacGregor Mathers, Translator. [1912]
An extensive introduction to the Kabbalah.
Translations of three texts from branch of the Kabbalah
known as the Zohar:
The Greater Holy Assembly
The Lesser Holy Assembly
Sepher Yezirah
translated by Isidor Kalisch [1877]
Includes English translation and pointed Hebrew for this key text of the Kabbalah.
Kabbalah - Sepher Yetzirah
W.W. Westcot tr. [1887] 26,374 bytes
The Zohar: Bereshith to Lekh Lekhaby Nurho de Manhar (pseud.) [1900-14]
The Zohar is a Kabbalistic commentary on the Hebrew Bible. This is the only extensive English translation of a portion of the Zohar currently in the public domain. Covers Adam to Abraham.
Jewish Mysticismby J. Abelson [1913]
The Kabbalah in the context of the history of Jewish Mysticism.
The Kabbalah, or the Religious Philosophy of the Hebrewsby Adolphe Franck [1926]
Did the Kabbalah originate from Zoroastrianism?
The Cabala
by Bernhard Pick [1913]
A short critical introduction to the Kabbalah.
Midrash
Tales and Maxims from the Midrash
by Samuel Rapaport [1907]
A popular Midrash compilation.
This is the (unattributed) source for the next two
entries' Midrash extracts.
This book has the references for each of the passages quoted lacking in
the texts below, which makes it the best source
if you wish to quote some of this material.
The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East, Vol. IV: Medieval Hebrew
[1917]
Some sizeable extracts from the Midrash, medieval collections of Jewish Biblical lore and legend.
Midrash Tanhuma
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Haggadah
The Union Haggadah
ed. by The Central Conference of American Rabbis, illus. Isidore Lipton [1923]
A guide to the celebration of Passover.
Haggada For Pesach According To Chabad-Lubavitch Custom 66,858 bytes
Other texts from late Antiquity and Middle Ages
The Works of Flavius Josephus
by Josephus, tr. by William Whiston [1737]
Josephus was a Jewish historian, soldier and scholar
who lived in the first century [37-100 C.E.]. His works are primary
historical sources of information about the doomed Jewish revolt of
66-9 C.E.
The Kitab al Khazari
of Judah Hallevi, translated by Hartwig Hirschfeld [1905]
A classic of Medieval Jewish philosophy, set in a legendary (but historical) central Asian kingdom.
The Guide for the Perplexed
by Moses Maimonides, M. Freidländer, tr. (2nd Ed.) [1904]
Maimonides' masterful summation of theology, natural philosophy and divine law.
Selected Religious Poems of Solomon ibn Gabirol
by Solomon ibn Gabirol, tr. by Israel Zangwill [1923]
A key medieval Jewish Spanish poet and philosopher's devotional poetry, some of which was adopted into liturgy.
The Fountain of Life
by Solomon ibn Gabirol,
tr. by Harry E. Wedeck [1962]
An extract from the Jewish writer Solomon ibn Gabirol's philosophical treatise on the First Cause, misattributed for centuries to an Islamic or Christian author named Avicebron.
Original Hebrew of a Portion of Ecclesiasticus
by A.E. Cowley and A. Neubauer [1897]
Includes the Alphabet of Ben Sira.
Modern
Jewish Magic and Superstition: A Study in Folk Religion
by Joshua Trachtenberg [1939]
A comprehensive study of medieval Jewish folk magic, a primary source of modern ceremonial magic.
A Rabbi's Impressions of the Oberammergau Passion Play
by Joseph Krauskopf [1901]
A Rabbi examines the tangled narrative of the Crucifixion, and the roots of anti-Semitism in the early Church.
Folk-lore of the Holy Land; Moslem, Christian and Jewishby J. E. Hanauer [1907]
Moslem, Christian and Jewish tales from old Palestine.
Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends
by "Aunt Naomi" (Gertrude Landa) [1919]A well-told collection of Midrash and Talmudic lore for children.
The Great Marchby Rose G. Lurie [1931]
A wonderful children's book of post-biblical Jewish stories, with great illustrations, that adults can learn a thing or two from.
Reform Judaism - 1885 Pittsburgh Conference
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Articles of Faith from the Jewish Encyclopedia
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The Columbus Platform: The Guiding Principles Of Reform Judaism [1937]
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Reform Judaism - A Centenary Perspective
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Maimonides: Ani Maamin - I believe...
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Solomon Schechter - Studies in Judaism - The Dogmas of Judaism
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The Thirteen Wants by Mordecai M. Kaplan
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Links
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