6 myths
Myths, legends, and mystical writings about Alexander from across Jewish tradition.
6 myths on JewishMythology.com retell how Jewish tradition imagines alexander, drawn from the Hebrew Bible, Midrash, Talmud, Kabbalah, and later Jewish literature. Each story below synthesizes primary sources into a single narrative; follow any myth to read it, and from there into the source passages behind it.
He had silenced the earth, lifted his heart, and taken the ends of the world. Then he fell into bed in Babylon and gave everything away.
Alexander followed a fragrant stream to the end of the earth, reached the gate of Eden, and was turned away with a bone and a riddle.
Jaddua had sworn an oath to Darius and would not break it, so Alexander promised to make an example of him. Then he came up the road and went into the dust.
A high priest in Jerusalem refused to send Alexander troops because of an oath he had sworn to a losing king. Alexander came up the road to collect.
Alexander offered gold for a statue of himself between the sanctuary and the Holy of Holies. The High Priest offered him a generation of children instead.
A man bought a ruin and found gold buried in it. He said the gold was the seller's. The African king told the two of them to marry their children.
