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Living Library

Historical inquiry is a foundational practice at House of Divine Radiance. By listening to ancestral and scholarly voices, we find our way through the mysteries of the Heavenly Human.

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

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.
    ● Cunningham, Mary B. and Elizabeth Theokritoff, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Orthodox Christian Theology.
    ● 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.)
    ● Himmelfarb, Martha. Ascent to Heaven in the Jewish and Christian Apocalypses. 
    ● Himmelfarb, Martha. "The Experience of the Visionary and Genre in the Ascension ofIsaiah 6-11 and the Apocalypse of Paul." (Semeia 36: Early Christian Apocalyptism--Genre and Social Setting).
    ● 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. How the Gospels Became History: Jesus and Mediterranean Myths.
    ● 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.
    ● Rowland, Christopher. The Open Heaven: A Study of Apocalyptic in Judaism and Early 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.
    ● Snyder, H. Gregory. "'She Destroyed Multitudes:' Marcellina's Group in Rome." (Women and Knowledge in Early Christianity).
    ● Tervahauta, Ulla, Ivan Miroshnikov, Outi Lehtipuu and Ismo Dunderberg, eds. Women and Knowledge in Early Christianity.
    ● 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.
    ● Himmelfarb, Martha. "The Experience of the Visionary and Genre in the Ascension of
    Isaiah 6-11 and the Apocalypse of Paul." (Semeia 36: Early Christian Apocalyptism--Genre and Social Setting).

    ● 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.)


  • ● Bauman, Lynn. The Gospel of Thomas: Wisdom of the Twin.
    ● DeConick, April J. Seek to See Him: Ascent & Vision Mysticism in the Gospel of Thomas.
    ● Kim, David W. The Words of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas: The Genesis of a Wisdom Tradition.
    ● Patterson, Stephen J. The Gospel of Thomas and Christian Origins: Essays on the Fifth Gospel.
    ● Mabry, John R. The Way of Thomas: Insights for Spiritual Living from the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas.
    ● Novak, Peter. Original Christianity: A New Key to Understanding the Gospel of Thomas and Other Lost Scriptures.
    ● Zinner, Samuel. "A Catena of 2 Enoch Parallels in the Gospel of Thomas Logia 1-18." (Textual and Comparative Explorations in 1 and 2 Enoch).
    ● Zinner, Samuel. The Gospel of Thomas Sayings 1-19: Seeing God Through Exploring the Text.

  • ● Arbel, Vita Daphna. Beholders of Divine Secrets: Mysticism and Myth in the Hekhalot and Merkavah Literature.
    ● 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.
    ● Bodleian Libraries. Collection of Kabbalah and Hekhalot Texts.
    ● Collins, John Joseph. Apocalypse, prophecy, and pseudepigraphy: [essays on] Jewish Apocalyptic literature.
    ● Davila, James R. Descenders to the Chariot: The People Behind the Hekhalot Literature.
    ● Davila, James R. Hekhalot Literature in Translation: Major Texts of Merkavah Mysticism.
    ● DeConick, April D., ed. 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.”
    ● Elior, Rachel. The Three Temples: On the Emergence of Jewish Mysticism.
    ● Himmelfarb, Martha. Ascent to Heaven in Jewish and Christian Apocalypses.
    ● Himmelfarb, Martha. “Apocalyptic Ascent and the Heavenly Temple.”
    ● Himmelfarb, Martha. Between Temple and Torah: Essays on Priests, Scribes, and Visionaries in the Second Temple Period and Beyond.
    ● Himmelfarb, Martha. “The Experience of the Visionary and Genre in the Ascension of Isaiah 6–11 and the Apocalypse of Paul.”
    ● Himmelfarb, Martha. “Heavenly Ascent and the Relationship of the Apocalypses and the Hekhalot Literature.” Reprinted in Between Temple and Torah.
    ● 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.”
    ● Orlov, Andrei A. Heavenly Priesthood: The Apocalypse of Abraham.
    ● Orlov, Andrei A. “Theurgical Praxis as a Substance of Heavenly Reality: Spatial Dynamics of the Aural Mysticism in the Apocalypse of Abraham.”
    ● Rowland, Christopher. The Open Heaven: A Study of Apocalyptic in Judaism and Early Christianity.
    ● Schäfer, Peter. The Hidden and Manifest God: Some Major Themes in Early Jewish Mysticism.
    ● Schäfer, Peter. The Origins of Jewish Mysticism.
    ● Schäfer, Peter. Synopse zur Hekhalot-Literatur. With Margarete Schlüter and Hans Georg von Mutius.
    ● Schäfer, Peter. Two Gods in Heaven: Jewish Concepts of God in Antiquity.
    ● Schäfer, Peter, Ra'anan Boustan, and Martha Himmelfarb, eds. Hekhalot Literature in Context: Between Byzantium and Babylonia.
    ● Swartz, Michael D. Scholastic Magic: Ritual and Revelation in Early Jewish Mysticism.
    ● van Bladel, Kevin. “Heavenly Cords and Prophetic Authority in the Quran and Its Late Antique Context.”
    ● Vermes, Géza. The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English.
    ● Wolfson, Elliot R. Through a Speculum That Shines: Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Mysticism.
    ● Wright, J. Edward. The Early History of Heaven.
    ● Yarbro Collins, Adela, ed. Semeia 36: Early Christian Apocalypticism: Genre and Social Setting.


  • ● 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.
    ● 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.
    ● Collins, John Joseph. Apocalypse, prophecy, and pseudepigraphy: [essays on] Jewish Apocalyptic literature.
    ● 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.
    ● Elior, Rachel. The Three Temples: On the Emergence of Jewish Mysticism.
    ● 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.
    ● Himmelfarb, Martha. Ascent to Heaven in the Jewish and Christian Apocalypses.
    ● Himmelfarb, Martha. Between Temple and Torah: Essays on Priests, Scribes, and Visionaries in the Second Temple Period and Beyond.
    ● Himmelfarb, Martha. "The Experience of the Visionary and Genre in the Ascension ofIsaiah 6-11 and the Apocalypse of Paul." (Semeia 36: Early Christian Apocalyptism--Genre and Social Setting).
    ● 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.
    ● Orlov, Andrei A. Heavenly Priesthood in the Apocalypse of Abraham.
    ● Orlov, Andrei A. "Theurgical Praxis as a Substance of Heavenly Reality: Spatial Dynamics of the Aural Mysticism in the Apocalypse of Abraham." (A paper).
    ● 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).
    ● Pearson, Birger A. Gnosticism, Judaism, and Egyptian Christianity.
    ● Rowland, Christopher. The Open Heaven: A Study of Apocalyptic in Judaism and Early Christianity.
    ● Schäfer, Peter. Two Gods in Heaven: Jewish Concepts of God in Antiquity.
    ● 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.
    ● Wright, J. Edward. The Early History of Heaven.


  • ● Berg, Rav P.S. The Energy of Hebrew Letters.
    ● DeConick, April D. Paradise Now: Essays on Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism.
    ● Elior, Rachel. The Three Temples: On the Emergence of Jewish 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.
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