My LORD’s BibleKabbalah (Jewish Mysticism)
Three treatises of the Zohar, the central book of Jewish mysticism, in Mathers's 1887 English — not scripture.
Kabbalah is the mystical tradition of Judaism: a way of reading the Hebrew Bible that looks for a hidden layer of meaning about the inner life of God and how the world is bound to him. Its central book, the Zohar, is a medieval commentary on the Torah that surfaced in Spain in the late thirteenth century. It is not scripture in any church or in Judaism itself, and it is carried here as a historical and literary source, the way the History shelf carries Josephus.
This shelf holds three treatises of the Zohar in S. L. MacGregor Mathers's English translation, The Kabbalah Unveiled (1887): the Book of Concealed Mystery, the Greater Holy Assembly and the Lesser Holy Assembly. Mathers worked from Knorr von Rosenroth's seventeenth-century Latin version, not directly from the Aramaic, and these three treatises are only a small part of the whole Zohar, so treat this as selections in a translation of a translation, not a complete text. Mathers's own notes are not reproduced; the parenthetical glosses inside the text are kept. For background, see the essay on what Kabbalah is.