Mysterious Collection Building on Logos.com
On the surface, this sounds interesting. I don't know about you, but quite often my interest in native-american religions of the North American woodlands crosses paths with my unbelievable curiousity with islam. I mean they're just so close, it's hard to distinguish.
But joking aside, the inclusion of judaism is just 'dumb' as Josh likes to say (hi Josh!). Or 'unwise' as MJ (and I) would recommend.
Below are REALLY good volumes, some of which I'd recommend for even middle-level libraries. But they're packaged so oddly, the chances of them achieving 'mainstream' isn't good. My guess is the the publisher or Logos wanted to sell some Yucatan hymnals?
The Classic Midrash: Tannaitic Commentaries on the Bible
Author: Reuven Hammer
Translator: Reuven Hammer
Series: The Classics of Western Spirituality
Publisher: Paulist Press
Publication Date: 1995
Pages: 576
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This volume includes commentary and interpretation of Scripture taken from the early rabbinic masters, the Tannaim, along with a running explanation of their theological, literary and historical importance. The editing of the Tannaitic Midrashim took place in the land of Israel in the fourth to fifth centuries AD.
The Talmud: Selected Writings
Translator: Ben Zion Bokser
Series: The Classics of Western Spirituality
Publisher: Paulist Press
Publication Date: 1989
Pages: 288
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This volume sheds light on the early rabbis as the shapers of religion and uncovers for the modern reader the early Sages’ fundamental beliefs concerning God, the world and the human condition.
The Early Kabbalah
Editor: Joseph Dan
Translator: Ronald C. Kiener
Series: The Classics of Western Spirituality
Publisher: Paulist Press
Publication Date: 1986
Pages: 224
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This volume contains previously unavailable texts, including The Book Bahir and the writings of the Iyyum circle that were written during the first 100 years of this movement that was to become the most important current in Jewish mysticism. This movement began in the late twelfth century among Rabbinic Judaism in southern Europe.
Zohar: The Book of Enlightenment
Author: Zohar
Translator: Daniel Chanan Matt
Series: The Classics of Western Spirituality
Publisher: Paulist Press
Publication Date: 1983
Pages: 336
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This volume contains the first translation with commentary of selections from The Zohar, the major text of the Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical tradition. This work was written in thirteenth-century Spain by Moses de León, a Spanish scholar.
Abraham Isaac Kook: The Lights of Penitence, the Moral Principles, Lights of Holiness, Essays, Letters, and Poems
Author: Abraham Isaac Kook
Translator: Ben Zion Bokser
Series: The Classics of Western Spirituality
Publisher: Paulist Press
Publication Date: 1978
Pages: 448
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The chief Rabbi of Palestine prior to the establishment of the state of Israel, Abraham Isaac Kook (1865–1935) represents the renewal of the Jewish mystical tradition in modern times.
Abraham Miguel Cardozo: Selected Writings
Author: Abraham Miguel Cardozo
Translator: David J. Halperin
Series: The Classics of Western Spirituality
Publisher: Paulist Press
Publication Date: 2001
Pages: 448
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This volume contains the story, mainly told in his own words, of Abraham Miguel Cardozo (1627–1706), a seventeenth-century Jew raised as a Catholic, who combined his rabbinic learning, his Catholic training and a budding awareness of Eastern religions into a remarkable theory of comparative religion.
Elijah Benamozegh: Israel and Humanity
Author: Elijah Benamozegh
Editor: Maxwell Luria
Translator: Maxwell Luria
Series: The Classics of Western Spirituality
Publisher: Paulist Press
Publication Date: 1995
Pages: 464
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This volume consists of the first English translation of Israel and Humanity, the work that constitutes a synthesis of the religious thought of Elijah Benamozegh (1823–1900), a nineteenth-century Italian rabbi, theologian, philosopher, and kabbalist.
Hasidic Spirituality of a New Era: The Religious Writings of Hillet Zeitlin
Author: Hillet Zeitlin
Editor: Arthur Green
Translator: Arthur Green
Series: The Classics of Western Spirituality
Publisher: Paulist Press
Publication Date: 2012
Pages: 256
A preeminent scholar of Jewish thought and spirituality presents the first-ever English translation of selected writings of the Hasidic martyr of the Warsaw Ghetto, Hillel Zeitlin (1871–1942).
Isaiah Horowitz: The Generations of Adam
Author: Isaiah Horowitz
Editor: Miles Krassen
Translator: Miles Krassen
Series: The Classics of Western Spirituality
Publisher: Paulist Press
Publication Date: 1995
Pages: 464
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This volume consists of the first English translation of a seventeenth-century classic of Jewish literature that deals with many of the most important issues addressed by Kabbalists since the late twelfth century. Isaiah Horowitz (c. 1570–1626) served as rabbi of several of the most important European Jewish communities before becoming Chief Ashkenazic Rabbi of Jerusalem in 1621.
Jewish Mystical Autobiographies: The Book of Visions and the Book of Secrets
Translator: Morris M. Faierstein
Series: The Classics of Western Spirituality
Publisher: Paulist Press
Publication Date: 1999
Pages: 384
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This volume consists of the first English translations of the autobiographical works of two important and influential Jewish mystics. In The Book of Visions, Rabbi Hayyim Vital (1542–1620), foremost disciple of R. Isaac Luria, describes his mystical experiences in great detail. In The Book of Secrets, Rabbi Yizhak Isaac Safrin of Komarno (1806–1874) recounts incidents in his life and visionary experiences.
Menahem Nahum of Chemobyl: Upright Practices, the Light of the Eyes
Author: Menahem Nahum
Translator: Arthur Green
Series: The Classics of Western Spirituality
Publisher: Paulist Press
Publication Date: 1982
Pages: 304
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Menahem Nahum of Chernobyl (1730–1797) was rabbi of Chernobyl, near Kiev, in Ukraine. He was part of the Hasidic movement that played a key role in the history of eastern European Jewry. Upright Practices is a devotional manual of personal practices. The Light of the Eyes is a collection of homilies based on the Book of Genesis.
Nahman of Bratslav: The Tales
Author: Nahman of Bratslav
Translator: Arnold Band
Series: The Classics of Western Spirituality
Publisher: Paulist Press
Publication Date: 1988
Pages: 340
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The fascinating sacred tales of Rabbi Nahman (1772–1810) are presented to the world in the most authentic translations ever accomplished.
Safed Spirituality: Rules of Mystical Piety, The Beginning of Wisdom
Translator: Lawrence Fine
Series: The Classics of Western Spirituality
Publisher: Paulist Press
Publication Date: 1984
Pages: 224
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This volume portrays aspects of the rich literature that developed in Safed, a Galilean city and one of the great centers of Jewish creativity, in the sixteenth century.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.