# Bibliographies ## Tanakh and Ancient History *The Jewish Study Bible* (prefaces and commentaries) *The Early History of God - YHVH and the other deities in ancient Israel* by Mark Smith *The Origins of Monotheism - Israel's Polytheistic Background and the Ugaritic Texts* by Mark Smith *The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel* by Benjamin Sommer *The Hebrew Goddess* by Raphael Patai ## The Prophetic Kabbalah of Avraham Abulafia In *Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism* by Gershom Scholem. In *Meditation and Kabbalah* by Aryeh Kaplan *The Mystical Experience in Avraham Abulafia* by Moshe Idel ## The Kabbalah of the Sefirot in the Zohar *A River from Eden - The Language of Mystical Experience in the Zohar* by Melila Hellner-Eshed *Seekers of the Face - The Language of Faces in the Zohar* by Melila Hellner-Eshed *Love of the Shekhinah - Mysticism and Poetics in Tiqqunei ha-Zohar* by Biti Roi [Hebrew]