Jewish Mythology
Source Library
Enter the Source Library: 23,000+ Jewish source passages organized into shelves and source works, each readable in source order. Start with a shelf, open the full list of source works, or read any work in source order.
- Passages
- 23,000+
- Shelves
- 7
- Source works
- 211
Shelves
The seven shelves of the library. Each shelf gathers related source works.
Rabbinic Midrash
The classical midrashim (Midrash Rabbah, the tannaitic and homiletical collections,
12,020 passagesTalmudic Aggadah
Aggadic passages from the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmud, the Mishnah, and Ein Yaakov.
289 passagesApocrypha & Pseudepigrapha
Jewish texts outside the canonical Hebrew Bible, from Second Temple apocalypses and the Dead Sea Scrolls to later pseudepigraphic works,
1,654 passagesKabbalah & Mysticism
The mystical current of Judaism, from the Heikhalot literature and the Zohar to Lurianic and Chassidic writings,
3,572 passagesHellenistic Jewish Writers
Greek-writing Jews of antiquity, Philo of Alexandria and Flavius Josephus,
623 passagesModern Compilations & Folklore
Modern anthologies, encyclopedias, and folktale collections, including Ginzberg’s Legends of the Jews and the scholarly compilations that
4,113 passagesOther Sources
Targumim, biblical text and commentary, medieval halakhic and ethical works, and other sources that enrich the Jewish mythological record.
1,495 passagesSource Works
A few representative works to begin with, or browse the complete list.
Legends of the Jews
Modern Compilations & Folklore
2,672 passagesYalkut Shimoni on Torah
Rabbinic Midrash
2,211 passagesMekhilta DeRabbi Yishmael
Rabbinic Midrash
1,517 passagesKalach Pitchei Chokhmah
Kabbalah & Mysticism
1,239 passagesSifrei Devarim
Rabbinic Midrash
1,099 passagesBereshit Rabbah
Rabbinic Midrash
1,056 passages