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Christian Mysticism
● Bourgeault, Cynthia. Chanting the Psalms: A Practical Guide.
● Bourgeault, Cynthia. The Law of Three: Discovering the Radical Truth at the Heart of Christianity.
● Bourgeault, Cynthia. The Meaning of Mary Magdalene: Discovering the Woman at the Heart of Christianity.
● DeConick, April D. Paradise Now: Essays on Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism.
● Douglas-Klotz, Neil. Blessings of the Cosmos: Wisdom of the Heart from the Aramaic Words of Jesus.
● Douglas-Klotz, Neil, trans., comp., ed. Desert Wisdom: A Nomad's Guide to Life's Big Questions from the Heart of the Native Middle East.
● Douglas-Klotz, Neil. Hidden Gospel: Decoding the Spiritual Message of the Aramaic Jesus.
● Douglas-Klotz, Neil. Prayers of the Cosmos: Reflections on the Original Meanings of Jesus’s Words.
● Douglas-Klotz, Neil. Revelations of the Aramaic Jesus: The Hidden Teachings on Life & Death.
● Forman, Mary. Praying with the Desert Mothers.
● Gabra, Gawdat and Hany N. Takla (eds). Christianity and Monasticism in Alexandria and the Egyptian Desert.
● Gabra, Gawdat and Hany N. Takla (eds). Christianity and Monasticism in Northern Egypt: Beni Suef, Giza, Cairo, and the Nile Delta.
● Gabra, Gawdat and Hany N. Takla (eds). Christianity and Monasticism in Upper Egypt: Vol. 1 — Akhmim and Sohag.
● Gabra, Gawdat and Hany N. Takla (eds). Christianity and Monasticism in Upper Egypt: Vol. 2 — Nag Hammadi-Esna.
● LeLoup, Jean Yves. Being Still: Reflections on an Ancient Mystical Tradition.
● Leonhart, Tom. Giving Thanks with the Aramaic Jesus.
● Smoley, Richard. Inner Christianity: A Guide to the Esoteric Tradition.
● Swan, Laura. The Forgotten Desert Mothers: Sayings, Lives, and Stories of Early Christian Women.
● Williams, Rowan. Silence and Honey Cakes: The Wisdom of the Desert.
Early Christianity
● Charlesworth, James H, ed. and trans. The Odes of Solomon.
● Cureton, W. Ancient Syriac Documents Relative to the Earliest Establishment of Christianity in Edessa and the Neighboring Countries.
● DeConick, April D. Paradise Now: Essays on Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism.
● Esler, Philip F. The Earliest Christians in Their Social Worlds: Social-scientific Approaches to New Testament Interpretation.
● Esler, Philip F, ed. The Early Christian World, Volumes 1 and II.
● Gabra, Gawdat, with Birger A. Pearson, Mark N. Swanson, and Youhanna Nessim Youssef. The A to Z of the Coptic Church.
● Goldstein, Phyllis. “Separation: Synagogue and Church, Jewish and Christian.” In A Convenient Hatred: The History of Anti-Semitism.
● Golland, Ana H. “The Six Books Apocryphon: Toward a Ritual Analysis.” (M.A. Thesis.)
● Hurtado, Larry W. Lord Jesus Christ, Devotion To Jesus in Earliest Christianity.
● Kiraz, George A., ed. Syriac-English New Testament: The Traditional Syriac Peshitta Text and the Antioch Bible English Translation.
● Kiraz, George A. and Andreas Juckel, eds. The Syriac Peshitta Bible with English Translation.
● Litwa, M. David. Carpocrates, Epiphanes and Marcellina: Three Early Christian Teachers of Alexandria and Rome.
● Litwa, M. David. Early Christianity in Alexandria: From Its Beginnings to the Late Second Century.
● Litwa, M. David. Found Christianities: Remaking the World of the Second Century CE.
● Litwa, M. David. Found Christianities: Remaking the World of the Second Century CE.
● Litwa, M. David. Iesus Deus: The Early Christian Depiction of Jesus as a Mediterranean God.
● Mattison, Mark M. The Coptic Odes of Solomon: Coptic-English Interlinear Version.
● Meyer, Marvin and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power.
● Nongbri, Brent. God's Library: The Archaeology of the Earliest Christian Manuscripts.
● Pearson, Birger A. Gnosticism, Judaism, and Egyptian Christianity.
● Pearson, Birger A., with A. Thomas Kraabel, George W.E. Nickelsburg, and Norman R. Petersen, eds. The Future of Early Christianity: Essays in Honor of Helmut Koester.
● Pearson, Birger A. The Roots of Egyptian Christianity.
● Schenk, Christina. Crispina and Her Sisters: Women and Authority in Early Christianity.
● Segal, Judah B. Edessa: The Blessed City.
● Shoemaker, Stephen J. The First Christian Hymnal: The Songs of the Ancient Jerusalem Church.
● VanderKam, James C. and Adler, William, eds. The Jewish Apocalyptic Heritage in Early Christianity.
● Wainright, Elaine M. Women Healing / Healing Women: the Genderization of Healing in Early Christianity.
● Watson, Francis and Sarah Parkhouse. Telling the Christian Story Differently: Counter-Narratives from Nag Hammadi and Beyond.
Early Israel & Canaan
● Ahuva, Mika. On My Right Michael, On My left Gabriel: Angels in Ancient Jewish Culture.
● Dawson, Tess. Anointed: A Devotional Anthology for the Deities of the Near and Middle East.
● Dawson, Tess. The Horned Altar: Rediscovering & Rekindling Canaanite Magic.
● Dawson, Tess. Whisper of Stone: Natib Qadish, Modern Canaanite Religion.
● Delaney, Carol. The Seed and The Soil: Gender and Cosmology in Turkish Village Society.*[*Contextual Note: This book discusses masculine-feminine polarity concepts in monotheistic religions.]
● Eilberg-Schwartz, H. The Savage in Judaism. An Anthropology of Israelite Religion and Ancient Judaism.
● Esler, Philip F. Sex, Wives, and Warriors: Reading Old Testament Narrative with its Ancient Audience.
● Gafney, Wilda. Daughters of Miriam: Women Prophets In Ancient Israel.
● Gafney, Wilda. Womanist Interpretations of the Bible: Expanding the Discourse.
● Gafney, Wilda. Womanist Midrash: A Reintroduction to the Women of the Torah and the Throne.
● Goldberg, H.E. Cambridge in the Land of Canaan: Descent, Alliance, Circumcision and Instruction in the Bible.
● Grabbe, Lester L. The Dawn of Israel: A History of Canaan in the Second Millennium BCE.
● Grobler, Estelle Cornella. The Rosette Symbol in the Ancient Near East: An Iconographic Approach. (A dissertation.)
● Hammer, Jill and Taya Shere. The Hebrew Priestess: A New Vision of Jewish Women's Spiritual Leadership.
● Hoffmann, L. A. Covenant of Blood. Circumcision and Gender in Rabbinic Judaism.
● Izak, Cornelius. The Many Faces of the Goddess: The Iconography of the Syro-Palestinian Goddesses Anat, Astarte, Qedeshet, and Asherah c. 1500-1000 BCE.
● Kramer, Noah Samuel. “The Biblical Song of Songs and Sumerian Love Songs.” In Expedition.
● Lederman-Daniely, Dvora. Awake, Awake: Subversive Feminine Voices in the Jewish Tradition.
● Lederman-Daniely, Dvora. Sarai: Is She the Goddess of Ancient Israel?
● Marsman, Hennie J. Women in Ugarit & Israel: Their Social & Religious Position in the Context of the Ancient Near East.
● Patai, Raphael. The Hebrew Goddess.
● Pongratz-Leisten, Beate, ed. Reconsidering the Concept of Revolutionary Monotheism.
● Pritchard, James B. Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament
● Riegner, Irene E. The Vanishing Hebrew Harlot: The Adventures of the Hebrew Stem ZNH.
● Saggs, H.W.F. The Encounter with the Divine in Mesopotamia and Israel.
● Veenker, Ronald A. "Forbidden Fruit: Ancient Near Eastern Sexual Metaphors." In Hebrew Union College Annual.
● Wiesel, Elie. Messengers of God: Biblical Portraits and Legends.
Enochic Cosmology
● Argall, Randal A. 1 Enoch and Ben Sirach: A Comparative Literary and Conceptual Analysis of the Themes of Revelation, Creation and Judgment.
● Barker, Margaret. The Book of Enoch and Its Influence on Christianity.
● Drawnel, Henryk, ed. The Aramaic Books of Enoch and Related Literature from Qumran.
● Dugan, Elana L. The Apocalypse of the Birds: 1 Enoch and the Jewish Revolt Against Rome.
● Hurtak, J.J. The Book of Knowledge: the Keys of Enoch.
● Nickelsburg, George W.E. and James C. Vanderkam. 1 Enoch: The Hermeneia Translation.
● Odeberg, Hugo. 3 Enoch, or the Hebrew Book of Enoch.
● Prophet, Elizabeth Clare. Fallen Angels and the Origins of Evil: Why the Church Fathers Suppressed the Book of Enoch and Its Startling Revelations.
● Stuckenbruck, Loren T. and Gabriele Boccaccini. Enoch and the Synoptic Gospels: Reminiscences, Allusions, Intertextuality.
First Temple in Jerusalem
● Barker, Margaret. Creation: A Biblical Vision for the Environment.
● Barker, Margaret. King of the Jews: Temple Theology in John’s Gospel.
●. Barker, Margaret. Mother of the Lord Volume 1: The Lady of the Temple.
● Barker, Margaret. On Earth as It Is in Heaven: Temple Symbolism in the New Testament.
● Barker, Margaret. Temple Mysticism: An Introduction.
● Barker, Margaret. Temple Mysticism: An Introduction.
● Barker, Margaret. Temple Themes in Christian Worship.
● Barker, Margaret. The Gate of Heaven: The History and Symbolism of the Temple in Jerusalem.
● Barker, Margaret. The Great High Priest: The Temple Roots of Christian Liturgy.
● Barker, Margaret. The Older Testament: The Survival of Themes from the Ancient Royal Cult in Sectarian Judaism and Early Christianity.
● Barker, Margaret, with Philip Davies, David Elkington, Jennifer Elkington, and Keith Hearne. The Case for the Jordan Lead Codices: The Mystery of the Sealed Lead Books.
● Bird, Phyllis A. Harlot Or Holy Woman? A Study of Hebrew Qedešah.
● Hammer, Jill and Taya Shere. The Hebrew Priestess: Ancient and New Visions of Jewish Women’s Spiritual Leadership.
● Kaniel, Ruth Kara-Ivanov. "The Tabernacle as a Sacred Feminine Space: The Development of Mythical Images from Biblical Literature to Medieval Kabbalah." In Religions.
● Patai, Raphael. The Hebrew Goddess.
● Picknett, Lynn and Clive Prince. When God Had a Wife: The Fall and Rise of the Sacred Feminine in Judeo-Christian Tradition.
Gnostic Christianities
● Ancient Holy Writings. The Complete Apocrypha of the Ethiopian Bible: 20 Missing Books in the Protestant Canon of Ge'ez Bible in English Edition.
● Barnstone, William and Marvin Meyer, eds. The Gnostic Bible.
● Barnstone, William and Marvin Meyer, eds. The Essential Gnostic Scriptures: Texts of Luminous Wisdom from the Ancient and Medieval Worlds—Including the Gospels of Thomas, Judas, and Mary Magdalene.
● Brill, ed. The Coptic Gnostic Library: A Complete Edition of the Nag Hammadi Codices. Volumes 1 to V.
● Buckley, Jorunn. The Great Stem of Souls: Reconstructing Mandaean History.
● Burns, Dylan M. Apocalypse of the Alien God: Platonism and the Exile of Sethian Gnosticism.
● Burns, Dylan M. and Matthew Goff. The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices: Selected Papers from the Conference "The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices" in Berlin, 20-22 July 2018.
● DeConick, April D. Gnostic New Age: How a Countercultural Spirituality Revolutionized Religion from Antiquity to Today.
● Evans, Erin M. The Books of Jeu and the Pistis Sophia: System, Practice, and Development of a Religious Group.
● Eylon, Dina Ripsman. Reincarnation in Jewish Mysticism and Gnosticism.
● Foster, Paul, ed. The Non-Canonical Gospels.
● Goehring, James E., with Charles W. Hedrick, Jack T. Sanders, and Hans Dieter Betz. Gnosticism & the Early Christian World.
● Hanegraaff, Wouter J. Dictionary of Gnosticism and Western Esotericism. Volumes I and II.
● Israel, David Asia. Lost Language of the Gnostic Nazoreans: An Aramaic-Nazoraic Dictionary of Mystical Terms Arranged by Gematria.
● Jacobs, Alan. The Gnostic Gospels.
● Katz, David S., ed. The Gnostic Imagination: Gnosticism, Mandaeism, and Merkabah Mysticism.
● LeLoup, Jean-Yves. The Gospel of Mary Magdalene.
● LeLoup, Jean-Yves. The Gospel of Philip: Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and the Gnosis of Sacred Union.
● LeLoup, Jean-Yves. The Gospel of Thomas: The Gnostic Wisdom of Jesus.
● Litwa, M. David. Carpocrates, Epiphanes and Marcellina: Three Early Christian Teachers of Alexandria and Rome.
● Litwa, M. David. Early Christianity in Alexandria: From Its Beginnings to the Late Second Century.
● Litwa, M. David. Found Christianities: Remaking the World of the Second Century CE.
● Litwa, M. David. Gnostic Secrets of the Naassenes: The Initiatory Teachings of the Last Supper.
● Litwa, M. David. The Naassenes: Exploring an Early Christian Identity.
● Marjanen, Antti. The Woman Jesus Loved: Mary Magdalene in the Nag Hammadi Library and Related Documents.
● Meyer, Marvin. The Gnostic Gospels of Jesus: The Definitive Collection of Mystical Gospels and Secret Books about Jesus of Nazareth.
● Orr, James. Protoevangelium of James.
● Pagels, Elaine. The Gnostic Gospels.
● Parkhouse, Sarah. "The Canon of the Pistis Sophia." (Journal of Theological Studies).
● Pearson, Birger A. Ancient Gnosticism: Traditions and Literature.
● Pearson, Birger A. Gnosticism, Judaism, and Egyptian Christianity.
●. Pearson, Birger A., trans. and ed. The Gnostic Attitude.
● Schmidt, Carl (ed.) and Violet MacDermot (trans.). Pistis Sophia.
● Schmidt, Carl (ed.) and Violet MacDermot (trans.). The Books of Jeu and the Untitled Text in the Bruce Codex.
● Singer, June. A Gnostic Book of Hours: Keys to Inner Wisdom.
● Smoley, Richard. Forbidden Faith: The Secret History of Gnosticism.
● Tutty, Paula. The Monks of the Nag Hammadi Codices: Contextualising a Fourth-Century Monastic Community.
● van Oort, Johannes and Einar Thomasson. Nag Hammadi and Manichean Studies.
Goddess Studies
● Baring, Anne. The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image.
● Benko, Stephen. The Virgin Goddess: Studies in the Pagan and Christian Roots of Mariology.
● Bird, Phyllis A. Harlot Or Holy Woman? A Study of Hebrew Qedešah.
● Brock, Sebastian P. Bride of Light: Hymns on Mary from the Syriac Churches.
● Clark, David Bruce. Eloah: Our Mother in Heaven.
● Freke, Timothy and Peter Gandy. Jesus and the Lost Goddess.
● Izak, Cornelius. The Many Faces of the Goddess: The Iconography of the Syro-Palestinian Goddesses Anat, Astarte, Qedeshet, and Asherah c. 1500-1000 BCE.
● Kidd, Sue Monk. The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman’s Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine.
● Lederman-Daniely, Dvora. Awake, Awake: Subversive Feminine Voices in the Jewish Tradition.
● Lederman-Daniely, Dvora. Sarai: Is She the Goddess of Ancient Israel?
● Patai, Raphael. The Hebrew Goddess.
● Picknett, Lynn and Clive Prince. When God Had a Wife: The Fall and Rise of the Sacred Feminine in Judeo-Christian Tradition.
● Schäfer, Peter. Mirror of His Beauty: Feminine Images of the Divine from the Bible to the Early Kabbalah.
● Star, Mirabai. Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics.
● Starbird, Margaret. The Goddess in the Gospels: Reclaiming the Sacred Feminine.
● Strand, Clark and Finn, Perdita. The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary.
● Trible, Phyllis. God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality.
Gospel of Mary
● Marjanen, Antti. The Woman Jesus Loved: Mary Magdalene in the Nag Hammadi Library and Related Documents.
● King, Karen. The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle.
● Mattison, Mark M. The Gospel of Mary: Coptic-English Interlinear.
● Parkhouse, Sarah. Eschatology and the Saviour: The Gospel of Mary Among Christian Dialogue Gospels.
● Parkhouse, Sarah. “Therefore I Say, Mary:” P.Oxy. 5577 and the Gospel of Mary. (Novum Testamentum.)
Hekhalot & Merkabah Literature
● Arbel, Vita Daphna. Beholders of Divine Secrets: Mysticism and Myth in the Hekhalot and Merkavah Literature.
● Bodleian Libraries. Collection of Kabbalah and Hekhalot Texts.
● Davila, James R. Descenders to the Chariot: The People Behind the Hekhalot Literature.
● Davila, James R. Hekhalot Literature in Translation: Major Texts of Merkavah Mysticiam.
● DeConick, April D. Paradise Now: Essays on Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism.
● Elior, Rachel. “From Earthly Temple to Heavenly Shrines: Prayer and Sacred Song in the Hekhalot Literature and Its Relation to Temple Traditions.” (Jewish Studies Quarterly).
● Katz, David S., ed. The Gnostic Imagination: Gnosticism, Mandaeism, and Merkabah Mysticism.
● Morray-Jones, C.R.A. A Transparent Illusion: The Dangerous Vision of Water in Hekhalot Mysticism.
● Morray-Jones, C.R.A. Paradise Revisited (2 Cor 12:1-12): The Jewish Mystical Background of Paul's Apostolate. Part 1: The Jewish Sources.
● Morray-Jones, C.R.A. Paradise Revisited (2 Cor 12:1-12): The Jewish Mystical Background of Paul's Apostolate. Part 2: Paul's Heavenly Ascent and Its Significance.
● Schäfer, Peter., Ra'anan Boustan, and Martha Himmelfarb. Hekhalot Literature in Context: Between Byzantium and Babylonia.
● Schäfer, Peter. Synopse zur Hekhalot-Literatur in Zusammenarbeit mit Margarete Schlüter und Hans Georg von Mutius.
● Schäfer, Peter. The Origins of Jewish Mysticism.
● Swartz, Michael D. Scholastic Magic: Ritual and Revelation in Early Jewish Mysticism.
● Vermes, Geza. The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English.
● Wolfson, Eliot R. Through a Speculum that Shines: Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Mysticism.
Jewish Apocalyptism
● Ahuva, Mika. On My Right Michael, On My left Gabriel: Angels in Ancient Jewish Culture.
● Anagnostou-Laoutides, Eva. In the Garden of the Gods: Models of Kingship from the Sumerians to the Seleucids.
● Ancient Holy Writings. The Complete Apocrypha of the Ethiopian Bible: 20 Missing Books in the Protestant Canon of Ge'ez Bible in English Edition.
● Argall, Randal A. 1 Enoch and Ben Sirach: A Comparative Literary and Conceptual Analysis of the Themes of Revelation, Creation and Jugdment.
● Barker, Margaret. The Book of Enoch and Its Influence on Christianity.
● Baumgarten, Joseph. The Qumran-Essene Restraints on Marriage.
● Pearson, Birger A. Gnosticism, Judaism, and Egyptian Christianity.
● Burns, Dylan M. and Matthew Goff. The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices: Selected Papers from the Conference "The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices" in Berlin, 20-22 July 2018.
● Charlesworth, James H. The Dead Sea Scrolls: Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek Texts with English Translations. Pseudepigraphic and Non-Masoretic Psalms and Prayers.
● Charlesworth, James H. The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: Apocalyptic Literature & Testaments.
● Charlesworth, James H. The Qumran Psalter: The Thanksgiving Hymns Among the Dead Sea Scrolls.
● Drawnell, Henryk, ed. The Aramaic Books of Enoch and Related Literature from Qumran.
● Dugan, Elana L. The Apocalypse of the Birds: 1 Enoch and the Jewish Revolt Against Rome.
● Feldman, Louis H., Kugel, James L., and Schiffman, Lawrence H. Outside the Bible: Ancient Jewish Writings Related to Scripture.
● Goldstein, Phyllis. “Separation: Synagogue and Church, Jewish and Christian.” In A Convenient Hatred: The History of Anti-Semitism.
● Macatangay, Francis M. and Francisco-Javier Ruiz-Ortiz. Ben Sira in Conversation with Traditions: A Festschrift for Prof. Núria Calduch-Benages on the Occasion of Her 65th Birthday.
● Olyan, Saul. “Purity Ideology in Ezra-Nehemiah as a Tool to Reconstitute the Community” (Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman Period).
● Székely, Edmond Bordeaux. The Essene Gospel of Peace.
● Stuckenbruck, Loren T. and Gabriele Boccaccini. Enoch and the Synoptic Gospels: Reminiscences, Allusions, Intertextuality.
● VanderKam, James C. and Adler, William, eds. The Jewish Apocalyptic Heritage in Early Christianity.
● Vermes, Geza. The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English.
● Wollenberg, Rebecca Scharbach. The Closed Book: How Rabbis Taught Jews Not to Read the Bible.
Jewish Mysticism
● Berg, Rav P.S. The Energy of Hebrew Letters.
● DeConick, April D. Paradise Now: Essays on Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism.
● Elson, Shulamit. The Kabbalah of Prayer: Sacred Sounds and the Soul’s Journey.
● Eylon, Dina Ripsman. Reincarnation in Jewish Mysticism and Gnosticism.
● Garb, Jonathan. Shamanic Trance in Modern Kabbalah.
● Glazerson, Rabbi Matityahu. Above the Zodiac: Astrology in Jewish Thought.
● Hammer, Rabbi Jill. “Altar of Earth: Reflections on Jews, Goddesses and the Zohar.” (Available on rabbijillhammer.com.)
● Hammer, Jill. The Jewish Book of Days: A Companion for All Seasons.
● Hammer, Jill. Return to the Place: The Magic, Meditation, and Mystery of Sefer Yetzirah.
● Hammer, Jill. Undertorah: An Earth-Based Kabbalah of Dreams.
● Heschel, Abraham Joshua. The Sabbath.
● Kaplan, Aryeh. Meditation and Kabbalah.
● Kaplan, Aryeh. Sefer Yetzirah: The Book of Creation in Theory and Practice.
● Michaelson, Jay. God In Your Body: Kabbalah, Mindfulness and Embodied Spiritual Practice.
● Pearson, Birger A. Gnosticism, Judaism, and Egyptian Christianity.
● Pinson, Rav DovBer. Illuminated Sound: The Baal Shem Tov on Prayer.
● Pinson, Rav DovBer. Sound and Vibration: Tuning into the Echoes of Creation.
● Rendsburg, Gary. "Notes on the Hebrew Names of the Planets, as Transmitted by Epiphanius of Salamis." (A paper.)
● Ruth, Melody. 72 Vibrations: A Kabbalistic Guide to Energy Healing.
● Scholem, Gershom. On the Kabbalah and Its Symbolism.
● Scholem, Gershom. Origins of the Kabbalah.
● Winkler, Rabbi Gershon. Daily Kabbalah: Wisdom from the Tree of Life.
● Winkler, Rabbi Gershon. The Magic of the Extra Ordinary: The Long-Awaited Sequel to Magic of the Ordinary.
● Winkler, Rabbi Gershon. Magic of the Ordinary: Recovering the Shamanic in Judaism.
Languages
● Arnold, Bill T. and John H. Choi. A Guide to Biblical Hebrew Syntax.
● Bousquet, Anton (Antoine). Between the Twilights: An Interlinear Translation of the Syriac Orthodox Breviary.
● Brock, Sebastian P. and Kiraz, George A. Pocket Gorgias Syriac-English Dictionary.
● Caplice, Richard. Introduction to Akkadian.
● De Lafayette, Maximillien. Thesaurus and Lexicon of Similar Words and Synonyms in 21 Dead and Ancient Languages.
● Edzard, Dietz Otto. Sumerian Grammar.
● Fernández, Migel Pérez. An Introductory Grammar of Rabbinic Hebrew.
● Miller, Douglas B. and R. Mark Shipp. An Akkadian Handbook.
● Gzella, Holger. Aramaic: A History of the First World Language.
● Hugenberger, Gordon P. with Nancy L. Erickson. The Basics of Akkadian: A Complete Grammar, Workbook, and Lexicon.
● Israel, David Asia. Lost Language of the Gnostic Nazoreans: An Aramaic-Nazoraic Dictionary of Mystical Terms Arranged by Gematria.
● Jagersma, B. A Descriptive Grammar of Sumerian.
● Kahn, Lily and Aaron D. Rubin. Handbook of Jewish Languages.
● Kelley, Page H. Biblical Hebrew: An Introductory Grammar.
● Kiraz, George A., ed. Syriac-English New Testament: The Traditional Syriac Peshitta Text and the Antioch Bible English Translation.
● Kiraz, George A. The New Syriac Primer, Second Edition.
● Kutscher, E.Y. Studies in Galilean Aramaic.
● Lambdin, Thomas O. Introduction to Biblical Hebrew.
● Lambdin, Thomas O. Introduction to Sahidic Coptic.
● Layton, Bentley. Coptic in 20 Lessons: Introduction to Sahidic Coptic with Exercises and Vocabularies.
● Manley, Bill. Sahidic Coptic: An Introductory Textbook.
● Ramasamy, Annadurai Variankaval. Aramaic Words and Tamil: the Language of Jesus.
● Reymond, Eric D. Complete Aramaic.
● Reymond, Eric D. Introductory Lessons in Aramaic.
● Simon, Ethelyn, Irene Resnikoff, and Linda Motzkin. The First Hebrew Primer: The Adult Beginner's Path to Biblical Hebrew.
● Stevenson, William B. Grammar of Palestinian Jewish Aramaic.
Life of Jesus
● Adyashanti. Resurrecting Jesus: Embodying the Spirit of a Revolutionary Mystic.
● Barker, Margaret. Christmas: The Original Story.
● Barker, Margaret. King of the Jews: Temple Theology in John’s Gospel.
● Barker, Margaret. The Revelation of Jesus Christ: Which God Gave to Him to Show His Servants What Must Soon Take Place.
● Bourgeault, Cynthia. The Wisdom Jesus: Transforming Heart and Mind—A New Perspective on Christ and His Message.
● Douglas-Klotz, Neil. Blessings of the Cosmos: Wisdom of the Heart from the Aramaic Words of Jesus.
● Douglas-Klotz, Neil. Hidden Gospel: Decoding the Spiritual Message of the Aramaic Jesus.
● Douglas-Klotz, Neil. Prayers of the Cosmos: Reflections on the Original Meanings of Jesus’s Words.
● Douglas-Klotz, Neil. Revelations of the Aramaic Jesus: The Hidden Teachings on Life & Death.
● Freke, Timothy and Peter Gandy. Jesus and the Lost Goddess.
● Hurtado, Larry W. Lord Jesus Christ, Devotion To Jesus in Earliest Christianity.
● JesusSpokeAramaic.com. Aramaic Study Guide: The Lord's Prayer.
● Lamsa, George M. My Neighbor Jesus: In the Light of His Own Language, People and Time.
● Lancellotti, Maria Grazia. Attis, Between Myth and History: King, Priest and God.
● Leloup Jean-Yves. The Sacred Embrace of Jesus and Mary: The Sexual Mystery at the Heart of the Christian Tradition.
● Leonhart, Tom. Giving Thanks with the Aramaic Jesus.
● Muhl, Lars. The Law of Light: The Secret Teachings of Jesus.
● Smith, Andrew, trans. and annot. The Lost Sayings of Jesus: Teachings from Ancient Christian, Jewish, Gnostic, and Islamic Sources — Annotated and Explained.
● Smith, Morton. Jesus the Magician: A renowned historian reveals how Jesus was viewed by the people of his time.
● Zaslow, Rabbi David. Jesus: First Century Rabbi.
Liturgies
● Bousquet, Anton (Antoine). Between the Twilights: An Interlinear Translation of the Syriac Orthodox Breviary.
● Hoffman, Charles. The Holy Rosary: Rich in Jewish Tradition.
● Lambertsen, Isaac E., trans. Holy Myrrh-Bearer Mary Magdalene: Life, Akathist Hymn in Her Honor, Liturgical Service in Her Honor.
● Murray, Robert. Symbols of the Church and Kingdom: A Study in Early Syriac Tradition, Revised Edition.
● Syriacorthodoxresources.org. “Liturgical Calendar of the Syriac Church.”
Mary Magdalene
● Betrand, Seren and Azra. Magdalene Mysteries: The Left-Handed Path of the Feminine Christ.
● Bourgeault, Cynthia. The Meaning of Mary Magdalene: Discovering the Woman at the Heart of Christianity.
● Harvey, Susan Ashbrook. Song and Memory: Biblical Women in the Syriac Tradition.
● Jones, Stanley F., ed. Which Mary? The Marys of Early Christian Tradition.
● King, Karen. The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle.
● Lambertsen, Isaac E., trans. Holy Myrrh-Bearer Mary Magdalene: Life, Akathist Hymn in Her Honor, Liturgical Service in Her Honor.
● Leloup Jean-Yves. The Sacred Embrace of Jesus and Mary: The Sexual Mystery at the Heart of the Christian Tradition.
● Lumby, Lori Ann. Only Love: The Secret Teachings of Mary Magdalene.
● Marjanen, Antti. The Woman Jesus Loved: Mary Magdalene in the Nag Hammadi Library and Related Documents.
● Otero, Ana. Conversations with Mary Magdalene: Embracing the Feminine Christ.
● Parkhouse, Sarah. "'Therefore I Say, Mary:' P.Oxy. 5577 and the Gospel of Mary." (Novum Testamentum).
● Powell, Robert. The Sophia Teachings: The Emergence of the Divine Feminine in Our Time.
● Starbird, Margaret. Mary Magdalene: Bride in Exile.
● Starbird, Margaret. The Goddess in the Gospels: Reclaiming the Sacred Feminine.
● Starbird, Margaret. The Woman with the Alabaster Jar: Mary Magdalen and the Holy Grail.
● Valerio, Adriana. Mary Magdalene: Women, the Church, and the Great Deception.
● Watterson, Meggan. Mary Magdalene Revealed: The First Apostle, Her Feminist Gospel, & the Christianity We Haven't Tried Yet.
Mary of Egypt
● Mena, Peter Anthony. Place and Identity in the Lives of Antony, Paul, and Mary of Egypt: Desert as Borderland.
● Pepin, Ronald E., Hugh Feiss, Flodoard, and Hildebert. Saint Mary Of Egypt: Three Medieval Lives in Verse.
● Velázquez, Sonia. Promiscuous Grace: Imagining Beauty and Holiness with Saint Mary of Egypt.
Mary the Virgin
● Akhrass, Roger Youssef. "Mary in the Šḥimo and the Early Syriac Fathers." Journal of Syriac Studies, Vol 23.2.
● Baker, Meg. “Isis and the Virgin Mary: A Pagan Conversion." (Available at columbia.edu.)
● Boss, Sarah Jane. Mary: The Complete Resource.
● Brock, Sebastian P. Bride of Light: Hymns on Mary from the Syriac Churches.
● Brock, Sebastian P. "Mary in Syriac Tradition." To the Pilgrimage to Our Lady of Walsingham, March 2007 Ecumenical Marian Pilgrimage Trust.
● Clark, David Bruce. Eloah: Our Mother in Heaven.
● Brown, Rachel Fulton. From Judgment to Passion: Devotion to Christ and the Virgin Mary, 800–1200.
● Brown, Rachel Fulton. Mary and the Art of Prayer: The Hours of the Virgin in Medieval Christian Life and Thought.
● Golland, Ana H. “The Six Books Apocryphon: Toward amRitual Analysis.” (M.A. Thesis.)
● Hansbury, Mary. Jacob Serug on the Mother of God.
● Harvey, Susan Ashbrook. Song and Memory: Biblical Women in the Syriac Tradition.
● Helminski, Camille Hamilton Adams. The Way of Mary: Maryam, Beloved of God.
● Jones, Stanley F., ed. Which Mary? The Marys of Early Christian Tradition.
● Kateusz, Ally. “Six-Books Dormition of the Virgin.” e-Clavis: Christian Apocrypha.
● Kearns, Cleo McNelly. The Virgin Mary, Monotheism, and Sacrifice.
● Pitre, Brent. Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary: Unveiling the Mother of the Messiah.
● Pope Shenouda III. The Holy Virgin St. Mary.
● Rubin, Miri. Mother of God: A History of the Virgin Mary.
● Seppälä, Serafim. "Is the Virgin Mary a Prophetess? Patristic, Syriac and Islamic Views." Parole de l’Orient 36.
● Shoemaker, Stephen J. Mary in Early Christian Faith and Devotion.
● Shoemaker, Stephen J. The Ancient Traditions of the Virgin Mary’s Dormition and Assumption.
● Shoemaker, Stephen J. The First Christian Hymnal: The Songs of the Ancient Jerusalem Church.
● Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch (Archdiocese for the Eastern United States). The Holy Virgin Mary in the Syriac Orthodox Church.
● Żelazny, Jan Witold. "Mary in the Annunciation as a Type of Baptism." Vox Patrum 80.
Matriarchs & Patriarchs
● Albright, W.F. “The Names Shaddai and Abram.” (Journal of Biblical Literature).
● Bar, Shaul. “Abraham’s Trees” (Abraham, IBS).
● Biale, David. “The God with Breasts: El Shaddai in the Bible.” (History of Religions).
● Harvey, Susan Ashbrook. Song and Memory: Biblical Women in the Syriac Tradition.
● Teubal, Savina J. Hagar the Egyptian: The Lost Tradition of the Matriarchs.
● Teubal, Savina J. Sarah the Priestess: The First Matriarch of Genesis.
Mesopotamia
● Abusch, Tzvi, and Ann K. Guinan, Nils P. Heeßel, Francesca Rochberg, Frans A.M. Wiggermann, eds. Mesopotamian Medicine and Magic.
● Anagnostou-Laoutides, Eva. In the Garden of the Gods: Models of Kingship from the Sumerians to the Seleucids.
● Baigent, Michael. The Science of Omens and the Knowledge of the Heavens.
● Bertman, Stephen. Handbook to Life in Ancient Mesopotamia.
● Black, Jeremy, Graham Cunningham, Eleanor Robson, and Gábor Zólyomi. Handbook to Life in Ancient Mesopotamia.
● Brown, David. Mesopotamian Planetary Astronomy-Astrology.
● Charvat, Petra. Mesopotamian Before History.
● Crawford, Harriet, ed. The Sumerian World.
● Crawford, Harriet. Ur: The City of the Moon God.
● Foster, Benjamin R. Before the Muses: An Anthology of Akkadian Literature.
● Geller, M.J. “Akkadian Healing Therapies in the Babylonian Talmud.” (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science).
● Goetze, Albrecht. Old Babylonian Omen Texts.
● Green, Tamara. The City of the Moon God: Religious Traditions of Harran.
● Grobler, Estelle Cornella. The Rosette Symbol in the Ancient Near East: An Iconographic Approach. (PhD Thesis).
● Halton, Charles and Saana Svärd, eds and trans. Women's Writing of Ancient Mesopotamia: An Anthology of the Earliest Female Authors.
● Harris, Rivkah. “Inanna-Ishtar as Paradox and a Coincidence of Opposites” (History of Religions).
● Harrison, Susan. “El Shaddai, the Mother Name of God.” (Available on the blog The Mother God Experiment).
● Hunger, Hermann and John Steele. The Babylonian Astronomical Compendium Mul.Apin.
● Karlsson, Mattias K. "New Onomastic Evidence for Egyptian-Mesopotamian Interaction." (Res Antiquae).
● Kasak Enn and Raul Veede. "Understanding Planets in Ancient Mesopotamia." (Folklore).
● Koch-Westenholz, Ulla. Mesopotamian Astrology: An Introduction to Babylonian and Assyrian Celestial Divination.
● Kramer, Noah Samuel. “The Biblical Song of Songs and Sumerian Love Songs.” (Expedition).
● Kramer, Noah Samuel. The Sumerians: The History, Culture, and Character.
● Kozal, Ekin and Murat Akar, Yağmur Heffron, Çiler Çilingiroğlu, Tevfik Emre Şerifoğlu, Canan Çakırlar, Sinan Ünlüsoy, and Eric Jean, eds. Questions, Approaches, and Dialogues in Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology: Studies in Honor of Marie-Henriette and Charles Gates.
● Lambert, W.G., trans. Babylonian Creation Myths.
● Langdon, Stephen. Sumerian Liturgies & Psalms.
● Leick, Gwendolyn. Sex & Eroticism in Mesopotamian Literature.
● Lenzi, Alan, ed. Reading Akkadian Hymns & Prayers: An Introduction.
● Meador, Betty De Shong. Inanna, Lady of the Largest Heart: Poems of the Sumerian High Priestess.
● Meador, Betty De Shong. Princess, Priestess, Poet: The Sumerian Temple Hymns of Enheduanna.
●. Meador, Betty De Shong. Uncursing the Dark: Treasures from the Underworld.
●. Meijer, Diederik J.W., ed. Natural Phenomena: Their Meaning, Depiction and Description in the Ancient Near East.
● Miller, Naomi F. “Symbols of Fertility and Abundance in the Royal Cemetery at Ur, Iraq.” (American Journal of Archaeology).
● Niederreiter, Zoltán, ed. Mesopotamian: Kingdom of Gods and Demons.
● Perdibon, Anna. “Between the Mouth of Two Rivers: The Agency of Water, Springs, Rivers and Trees in ancient Mesopotamian Cosmology and Religion." (Etnološka Tribina).
● Pongratz-Leisten, Beate, ed. Reconsidering the Concept of Revolutionary Monotheism.
● Pritchard, James B. Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament.
● Rochberg, Francesca. In the Path of the Moon: Babylonian Celestial Divination and Its Legacy.
● Rochberg, Francesca. The Heavenly Writing: Divination, Horoscopy, and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture.
● Rossi, Geraldina. The Akkadian Great Hymns and Prayers: A Critical Edition of the Nabû and Ištar Prayers and a Study of the Corpus.
● Saggs, H.W.F. The Encounter with the Divine in Mesopotamia and Israel.
● Schaudig, Hanspeter. Explaining Disaster Tradition and Transformation of the “Catastrophe of Ibbi-Sîn” in Babylonian Literature.
● Shibata, Daisuke and Shigeo Yamada, eds. Calendars and Festivals in Mesopotamia in the Third and Second Millennia BC.
● Stol, Marten. Women in the Ancient Near East: A Sourcebook.
● Ulanowski, Krzysztof. Neo-Assyrian and Greek Divination in War.
● Van Dijk-Coombes, Renate Marian. “‘Lady of Battle, His Beloved Spouse’: The Relationship Between the Body of Inana/Ištar and Her Spheres of War and Love from the Jemdet Nasr to the Old Babylonian Period.” (Die Welt des Orients).
● Veenker, Ronald A. "Forbidden Fruit: Ancient Near Eastern Sexual Metaphors." (Hebrew Union College Annual).
● Wee, John Z. The Comparable Body: Analogy and Metaphor in Ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman Medicine.
● Wiggermann, F.A.M. Mesopotamian Protective Spirits: The Ritual Texts.
● Wolkstein, Diane and Samuel Noah Kramer. Inanna: Queen of Heaven and Earth.
● Wunsch, Cornelia. Mining the Archives: Festschrift for Christopher Walker on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday.
Music, Chant & Sound
● Andrews, Ted. Sacred Sounds: Transformation through Music & Word.
● Ardino, Linda. The Lyre and the Staff: Symbols of Magico-Medicinal Sound.
● Chaudhary, Kulreet, M.D. Sound Medicine: How to Harness the Power of Sound to Heal the Mind and Body.
● Dominguez, Elena. Return to Rhythm: Learn Your Nervous System Rhythm to Restore Resilience in Your Body, Deepen Your Relationships, and Ignite an Embodied Spiritual Awakening.
● Elbaz, Vanessa Paloma. Sephardi Women’s Voices & Music: Jewish Tradition, Continuity and Survival.
● Elior, Rachel. “From Earthly Temple to Heavenly Shrines: Prayer and Sacred Song in the Hekhalot Literature and Its Relation to Temple Traditions.” (Jewish Studies Quarterly).
● Elson, Shulamit. The Kabbalah of Prayer: Sacred Sounds and the Soul’s Journey.
● Gold, Rabbi Shefa. The Magic of Hebrew Chant: Healing the Spirit, Transforming the Mind, Deepening Love.
● Goldman, Jonathan. Healing Sounds: The Power of Harmonics.
● Hungerford, Del. “Musical Frequencies of the Hebrew Letters” (Available from healingfrequenciesmusic.com).
● Jacobson, Joshua R. Chanting the Hebrew Bible: Student Edition.
● Khan, Hazrat Inayat. The Sufi Teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan, Vol. II: The Mysticism of Sound, Music, the Power of the Word, Cosmic Language
● Michaelson, Jay. God In Your Body: Kabbalah, Mindfulness and Embodied Spiritual Practice.
● Perry, Wayne. Sound Medicine: The Complete Guide to Healing with the Human Voice.
● Pinson, Rav DovBer. Illuminated Sound: The Baal Shem Tov on Prayer.
● Pinson, Rav DovBer. Sound and Vibration: Tuning into the Echoes of Creation.
● Ruth, Melody. 72 Vibrations: A Kabbalistic Guide to Energy Healing.
● Stevens, Christine LMT. Music Medicine: The Science and Spirit of Healing Yourself with Sound.
● Virginia, Karena and Dharm Khalsa. Essential Kundalini Yoga: An Invitation to Radiant Health, Unconditional Love, and the Awakening of Your Energetic Potential.
Nabataeans
● Al Masri, Eyad and Mairna Mustafa. "Nabatean Fertility Myth, Place, Time, Rituals, and Actors Based on Archaeological Evidence." (Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry).
● Alzoubi, Mahdi, Eyad Al Masri and Fardous Al Ajloyny. "Women in the Nabataean Society." (Mediterranean Arhaeology and Archaeometry).
● Esler, Philip F. Babatha's Orchard: The Yadin Papyri and an Ancient Jewish Family Tale Retold.
● Healey, John. The Religion of the Nabateans: A Conspectus.
● Kiraz, George A. and Zeyad Al-Salameen, eds. From Ugarit to Nabataea: Studies in Honor of John F. Healey.
Palestine in Late Antiquity
● Esler, Philip F. Babatha's Orchard: The Yadin Papyri and an Ancient Jewish Family Tale Retold.
● Fiensy, David A. and Ralph K. Hawkins. The Galilean Economy in the Time of Jesus.
● VanderKam, James C. and Adler, William, eds. The Jewish Apocalyptic Heritage in Early Christianity.
Priestess Traditions
● Bird, Phyllis A. Harlot Or Holy Woman? A Study of Hebrew Qedešah.
● Hallo, William O and J.J.A. Van Dijk. The Exaltation of Inanna.
● Hammer, Rabbi Jill. “Altar of Earth: Reflections on Jews, Goddesses and the Zohar.” (Available on rabbijillhammer.com.)
● Hammer, Jill and Taya Shere. The Hebrew Priestess: A New Vision of Jewish Women's Spiritual Leadership.
● Hammer, Rabbi Jill. “The Red Thread, the Red Heifer, and Red Ritual” (Available on rabbijillhammer.com.)
● Helminski, Camille Hamilton Adams. The Women of Sufism: A Hidden Treasure - Writings and Stories of Mystic Poets, Scholars & Saints.
● Kiraz, George A. and Zeyad Al-Salameen, eds. From Ugarit to Nabataea: Studies in Honor of John F. Healey.
● Marsman, Hennie J. Women in Ugarit & Israel: Their Social & Religious Position in the Context of the Ancient Near East.
● Meador, Betty De Shong. Inanna, Lady of the Largest Heart: Poems of the Sumerian High Priestess.
● Meador, Betty De Shong. Princess, Priestess, Poet: The Sumerian Temple Hymns of Enheduanna.
● Meador, Betty De Shong. Uncursing the Dark: Treasures from the Underworld.
● Redmond, Layne. When The Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythm.
● Riegner, Irene E. The Vanishing Hebrew Harlot: The Adventures of the Hebrew Stem ZNH.
● Stol, Marten. Women in the Ancient Near East: A Sourcebook.
● Takács, Sarolta A. Vestal Virgins, Sibyls, and Matrons: Women in Roman Religion.
● Tedlock, Barbara. The Woman in the Shaman’s Body: Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine.
● Teubal, Savina J. Hagar the Egyptian: The Lost Tradition of the Matriarchs.
● Teubal, Savina J. Sarah the Priestess: The First Matriarch of Genesis.
Sacred Cosmologies
● Baigent, Michael. The Science of Omens and the Knowledge of the Heavens.
● Beck, Roger. A Brief History of Ancient Astrology.
● Brown, David. Mesopotamian Planetary Astronomy-Astrology.
● Glazerson, Rabbi Matityahu. Above the Zodiac: Astrology in Jewish Thought.
● Hunger, Hermann and John Steele. The Babylonian Astronomical Compendium Mul.Apin.
● Kasak Enn and Raul Veede. "Understanding Planets in Ancient Mesopotamia." (Folklore).
● Khan, Hazrat Inayat. Spiritual Dimensions of Psychology.
● Koch-Westenholz, Ulla. Mesopotamian Astrology: An Introduction to Babylonian and Assyrian Celestial Divination.
● Masco, Maire M. The Mandaeans: Gnostic astrology as an artifact of cultural transmission.
●. Meijer, Diederik J.W., ed. Natural Phenomena: Their Meaning, Depiction and Description in the Ancient Near East.
● Rendsburg, Gary. "Notes on the Hebrew Names of the Planets, as Transmitted by Epiphanius of Salamis." (A paper.)
● Rochberg, Francesca. In the Path of the Moon: Babylonian Celestial Divination and Its Legacy.
● Rochberg, Francesca. The Heavenly Writing: Divination, Horoscopy, and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture.
● Shibata, Daisuke and Shigeo Yamada, eds. Calendars and Festivals in Mesopotamia in the Third and Second Millennia BC.
● Weor, Samael Aun. Astrotheurgy: Gnostic Astrology, Initiatic Kabbalah, and the Awakening of the Consciousness
Syriac Studies
● Bousquet, Anton (Antoine). Between the Twilights: An Interlinear Translation of the Syriac Orthodox Breviary.
● Brock, Sebastian P. Bride of Light: Hymns on Mary from the Syriac Churches.
● Hansbury, Mary. Jacob Serug on the Mother of God.
● Harvey, Susan Ashbrook. Song and Memory: Biblical Women in the Syriac Tradition.
● King, Daniel, ed. The Syriac World.
● Murray, Robert. Symbols of the Church and Kingdom: A Study in Early Syriac Tradition, Revised Edition.
● Segal, Judah B. Edessa: The Blessed City.
● Syriacorthodoxresources.org. “Liturgical Calendar of the Syriac Church.”