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Living Library

Historical inquiry is one of the ways we enter the desert of the Divine Mother, to listen to the voices of those who loved Her.

This list is intended as a "starting point" for your own historical inquiry. It is by no means exhaustive and will be frequently updated.

The inclusion of a title / author here does not constitute full endorsement.


  • 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.


  • 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.


  • ● 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.


  • ● 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.


  • ● 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.


  • ● 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.


  • 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.


  • ● 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.)


  • ● 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.


  • ● 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.


  • ● 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.


  • 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.


  • ● 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.


  • 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.
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