User blog comment:PullingoffMasks/Where to do your fucking research/@comment-64.60.101.179-20140127191352

For Judaism, I would also go with the Talmud (which is basically a set of legal documents and arguments) and the Midrash (which is a set of stories and commentary that explains passages in the Torah). You don't have to, because they are both very long (and there are multiple versions of them), but at least read the summaries of them, because they help explain some important things. - alliterator