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Tanakh (Hebrew Bible)

The Tanakh is the Hebrew Bible, the quintessential sacred text. The first five books of this comprise the Torah (or Pentateuch), the core sacred writings of the ancient Jews, traditionally written by Moses under divine inspiration.

Tanakh (Hebrew Bible).
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Talmud and Mishna

The Babylonian Talmud Translated by M.L. Rodkinson [1918]
This massive ten volume abridgement of the Talmud, the Jewish compendium of law and tradition, is the only extensive public domain translation. It is presented for the first time anywhere on the Internet at sacred-texts.com.

The Talmud: Selections by H. Polano [1876]
One of the first anthologies of Talmudic lore, and still one of the best.

Sayings of the Jewish Fathers (Pirqe Aboth) Translated by Charles Taylor [1897]
This is a beautiful extract from the Talmud, which has been used as liturgy. Devoted to ethics with some mystical touches, the Pirqe Aboth is distinguished for its transparency and simplicity. This was one of the first English translations in modern times of any portion of the Talmud.

Hebraic Literature Edited by Maurice Harris [1901]
Extracts from the Talmud, Midrash and Kabbalah.

Tractate Sanhedrin, Mishnah and Tosefta by Herbert Danby [1919]
A key portion of the Mishna dealing with crime and punishment

Tractate Berakoth by A. Lukyn Williams [1921]
The Mishna about prayer.

Haggada

Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg [1909].
This is a huge collection of traditional stories which have grown up around the Bible narrative.
    The Legends of the Jews from Creation to Jacob
    The Legends of the Jews: Moses in the Wilderness

Kabbalah

The Kabbalah Unveiled S.L. MacGregor Mathers, Translator. [1912]
This has an extensive introduction to the Kabbalah, and translations of three texts from branch of the Kabbalah known as the Zohar:

The Book of Concealed Mystery
The Greater Holy Assembly
The Lesser Holy Assembly

Sepher Yezirah translated by Isidor Kalisch [1877]
Includes English translation and pointed Hebrew for this key text of the Kabbalah.

Kabbalah - Sepher Yetzirah W.W. Westcot tr. [1887] 26,374 bytes

The Cabala by Bernhard Pick [1913]
A short critical introduction to the Kabbalah.

Midrash

Tales and Maxims from the Midrash by Samuel Rapaport [1907]
This is the (unattributed) source for the next two entries' Midrash extracts. This book has the references for each of the passages quoted lacking in the texts below, which makes it the best source if you wish to quote some of this material.

The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East, Vol. IV: Medieval Hebrew [1917]
This etext includes some sizeable extracts from the Midrash, medieval collections of Jewish Biblical lore and legend.

Midrash Tanhuma 60,529 bytes

Other texts from late Antiquity and Middle Ages

The Works of Flavius Josephus Translated by William Whiston [1737]
Josephus was a Jewish historian, soldier and scholar who lived in the first century [37-100 C.E.]. His works are primary historical sources of information about the doomed Jewish revolt of 66-9 C.E.

The Kitab al Khazari of Judah Hallevi, translated by Hartwig Hirschfeld [1905]
A classic of Medieval Jewish philosophy.

The Guide for the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides, M. Freidländer, tr. (2nd Ed.) [1904]. Maimonides' masterful summation of theology, natural philosophy and divine law.

Original Hebrew of a Portion of Ecclesiasticus
by A.E. Cowley and A. Neubauer [1897]
Includes the Alphabet of Ben Sira.

Modern

Haggada For Pesach According To Chabad-Lubavitch Custom 66,858 bytes
Reform Judaism - 1885 Pittsburgh Conference 4,588 bytes
Articles of Faith from the Jewish Encyclopedia 29,628 bytes
The Columbus Platform: The Guiding Principles Of Reform Judaism [1937] 8,706 bytes
Reform Judaism - A Centenary Perspective 11,054 bytes
Maimonides: Ani Maamin - I believe... 34,307 bytes
Solomon Schechter - Studies in Judaism - The Dogmas of Judaism 64,107 bytes
The Thirteen Wants by Mordecai M. Kaplan 2,127 bytes
Folk-lore of the Holy Land
by J. E. Hanauer [1909]
Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends by "Aunt Naomi" (Gertrude Landa) [1919]
A well-told collection of Midrash and Talmudic lore for children.
The Great March by Rose G. Lurie [1931, copyight not renewed]
A wonderful children's book of post-biblical Jewish stories, with great illustrations, that adults can learn a thing or two from.

Links

Jewish Virtual Library [External Site]