Bibliography
Below are books and websites of my bibliography and the suggested readings for people. Most of these are lists of (translated) literature, such as scriptures of both canonical and non-canonical texts. I have given some websites as well as a list of books, where translations can be found.
Bible
Since I’ve used other texts to compare with the Book of Genesis, I would need to use the Bible as one of my sources. There are number of different English translations of the Bible.
The most widely used is the King James Version.
King James’ Version
Good News Bible
Today’s English Version
United Bible Societies
4th (British) Edition, 1976
Tanakh: A New Translation of the Holy Scriptures
According to the Traditional Hebrew Text
The Jewish Publication Society, 1985
Being a Jewish text, this of course doesn’t have the New Testament.
Some of these Bibles are available on-line, so below is the link to various translations:
From the website Sacred Texts:
Bible
King James’ VersionTanakh
Jewish Publication Society, 1918
This translation is older than the new JPS translation in 1985.
Jewish Literature
Here are some of the rabbinic texts used to interpret laws and narratives of Hebrew Scripture. The most important text here (for this site) is the Legends of the Jews, also known as the Haggada. I have listed other texts, e.g. the Talmud, the Midrash, etc., but I barely used these texts in my research; they are listed for your suggested readings.
The Haggada is the text where I found most of my information about Lilith and Enoch.
All of these texts/translations came from the website – Sacred Texts in the section of Texts of Judaism.
The Legends of the Jews (Haggada)
trans. Louis Ginzberg, 1909The Babylonian Talmud
trans. M.L. Rodkinson, 1918
Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament
R.H. Charles
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913 (2 vols)
These 2 volumes used to be in my local public library, but they are now gone. That's why I have included various websites that have Charles’ translation.
A number of the texts found in this book can be found in various websites:
Sacred Texts has the Apocrypha, the Book of Jubilees, and books of Enoch (1 & 2) from the Pseudepigrapha.
Wesley Center Online has the most extensive collection of R.H. Charles’ translations in the Non-canonical section. Here are the links to various texts that I have used.
Another site is Pseudepigrapha, Apocrypha and Sacred Writings:
Book of Enoch 1 (same text as above, but laid out and formatted differently).
For the New Testament Apocrypha, I have to rely on the translation of M. R. James.
The Apocryphal New Testament
M.R. James
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924
These translation can be found in the Gnostic Society Library: Christian Apocrypha and Early Christian Literature. And the following texts I have used can be found in the following links.
Dead Sea Scrolls
The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls In English
translated by Geza Vernes
Penguin Classics, 2004 (rev.).
I just got this copy very recently. It was originally published in 1962, but has been revised a number of times over the years. It includes many texts that were not published in the 1st edition. So I would highly recommend it for anyone who does biblical study or research.
On-Line Texts Related to Biblical Study
All of my sources for the translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls originally came from the website mentioned above.
These sources (individual works from DSS) are the following: –
Tales of the Patriarchs (originally titled Genesis Apocryphon) (1QapGen=1Q20)
Fragment 2 Column 2
Paraphrase by Lesley Faulk & Amanda ScottEnoch (4Q201)
The Book of Giants (4Q203, 1Q23, 2Q26, 4Q530-532, 6Q8)
Enoch and the Watchers (4Q227)
Gnostic Texts
The Nag Hammadi Library
James M. Robinson
HarperCollins, 1990
Gnostic Scriptures: A New Translation with Annotations
Bentley Layton
Doubleday, 1987
The best site to visit, to hunt for Gnostic texts, is the Gnosis Archive or Gnostic Society Library, under Nag Hammadi Library. Some of these are the same translations found in Robinson’s book. Below is a list of texts that I have used in my research:
The Apocryphon of John, trans. Frederik Wisse
The Hypostasis of the Archons, trans. Bentley Layton
On the Origin of the World, trans. Hans-Gebhard Bethge & Bentley Layton
The Apocalypse of Adam, trans. George W. MacRae
The Gospel of the Egyptians, trans. Alexander Bohlig & Frederik Wisse
Outside of the Nag Hammadi Library are the following Gnostic texts from the Gnostic Society Library: Gnostic Scriptures and Fragments that I have used. They can be found in the following links:
Pistis Sophia
translated by G. R. S. Mead
first translated in 1921
By Jimmy Joe