Gershom Scholem, Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah, trans. by R.J. Zwi Werblowsky (1973; originally published in Hebrew, 1956), is a penetrating and comprehensive study of the great false messiah. Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism (1955, reissued 1993), is a major work by a constructive theologian heavily influenced by Jewish mysticism. Moshe Idel, Kabbalah: New Perspectives (1998), emphasizes the experiential side of Jewish mysticism. Georges Vajda Jewish myth and legend
The legends of the Talmud and Midrash are considered in the classic by Louis Ginzberg, Legends of the Jews, trans. from German by Henrietta Szold and Paul Radin, 2nd ed., 2 vol. (2003), also available in a 1-vol. abridgment (1961). The Midrash Rabbah has been translated and edited by H. Freedman and Maurice Simon, 3rd ed., 10 vol. in 8 (1983).
Compilations and studies of medieval myth and legend include Eleazar ben Asher ha-Levi and Jerahmeel ben Solomon, The Chronicles of Jerahmeel, trans. from Hebrew by Moses Gaster (1899, reprinted 1972); and Curt Leviant (ed. and trans.), King Artus: A Hebrew Arthurian Romance of 1279 (1969, reissued 2003). Judeo-German (Yiddish) works on the subject include Moses Gaster (trans.), Maʾaseh Book: Book of Jewish Tales and Legends, 2 vol. in 1 (1934, reissued 1981). A study of Hasidic legend is Martin Buber (ed.), Tales of the Hasidim, trans. from German by Olga Marx, 2 vol. in 1 (1947, reissued 1991). Myths and legends of the Holy Land are treated in Dov Noy (ed.), Folktales of Israel, trans. from Hebrew by Gene Baharav (1963); Zev Vilnay, The Sacred Land, 3 vol. (1973–78); and Joshua Trachtenberg, Jewish Magic and Superstition: A Study in Folk Religion (1939, reissued 1987). Theodor H. Gaster