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BIBLIOGRAPHIES  Post-biblical Writing
- Martin Buber, The Way of Man; according to the teachings
of Hasidism;
-- Buber’s writings on the eighteenth-century Hasidic movement have had a great
influence
- T Carmi, ed. The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse;
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981
-- Texts and translations from the bible to the twentieth century. A marvellous book
- "The Chafetz Chayyim", Ahavath Chesed/The Love
of Kindness; Jerusalem: Feldheim, 1976
-- Devotional work by the 19/20c Lithuanian sage Israel Meir ha-Kohen (Kagen). The
pseudonym is taken from his major work
- A Cohen, Everyman’s Talmud; New York: Schocken,
1975
-- The ancient rabbis who remade Judaism in the early centuries of the Common Era are
essential reading. Most of us have to rely on anthologies like this one, where the major
teachings are thematically arranged
- J H Hertz, Sayings of the Fathers; New York: Behrman
House, 1945
-- Hebrew text of a key tractate from the Mishnah, with English translation and notes by
an ex-Chief Rabbi
- Michael Hilton and Gordian Marshall, The Gospels and
Rabbinic Judaism; London: SCM, 1988
-- An approachable and interesting comparative study
- Eugene J Lipman, The Mishnah: Oral Traditions of Judaism;
New York: Schocken, 1974
-- Translation and explanation of selected passages; a useful book
- Hyam Maccoby, Early Rabbinic Writings; Cambridge:
CUP, 1988
-- This is an outstanding work of scholarship, enlightening and inspiring
- Moses Maimonides, The Guide for the Perplexed; New
York: Dover, 1956
-- The major work of the greatest medieval Jewish thinker
- C G Montefiore and H Loewe, eds. A Rabbinic Anthology;
New York: Schocken, 1974
-- Poignantly "dated" pre-Holocaust commentaries, but a rich collection all the
same
- Nachman of Breslov, Rabbi Nachman’s Stories,
tr. Aryeh Kaplan; Jerusalem: Breslov Institute, 1983
-- Classic tales from the Hasidic master
- Jacob Neusner, Learn Mishnah; New York: Behrman
House, 1978
-- Neusner is a major American Jewish scholar, and this is a good book of its kind
- Richard L Rubenstein, After Auschwitz: History,
Theology, and contemporary Judaism 2nd edition; Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1992
- Howard Schwartz, sel. Gabriel’s Palace: Jewish
Mystical Tales; New York: OUP, 1993
-- A huge range of material: Rabbinic, Kabbalistic, Hasidic...
- James c Vanderkam, The Dead Sea Scrolls Today; Grand
Rapids: Eerdmans/SPCK, 1994
- Geza Vermes, The Dead Sea Scrolls in English;
London: Penguin, 1990
- Z’ez ben Shimon Halevi (aka Warren Kenton!), Kabbalah:
Tradition of Hidden Knowledge; London: Thames & Hudson, 1979
-- Take a look also at the essay on Kabbalistic texts in Holtz, ed. Back to the Sources
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