6 myths

No sculptor of flesh could shape a man front and back at once, or raise a whole child from a single white drop kept alive in the dark.

She was four days into the clean count when she saw blood. It takes about five seconds to learn that fifteen days of counting are gone.

In the sealed dark of the womb God keeps the child from spilling, but an adulterer tells Him to step aside and the Shekhinah, the Divine Presence, draws back.

Denounced for hiding twelve thousand students from the poll-tax, Rabbah ran through the marshes of Babylonia until heaven itself summoned him.

Summoned before Rome's ruler and governor, Rabbi Akiva flings a fortune in medicine to the pigs and shows why God left the world unfinished.

Two schools fought over the order God assembles a body in, and the winner found the resurrection hiding in the tense of Job's complaint.