Bible in Jewish Mythology

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The Hebrew Bible as sacred text: its composition, its interpretation across centuries, and its place at the heart of Jewish tradition.

What does Bible mean in Jewish mythology?

The Hebrew Bible as sacred text: its composition, its interpretation across centuries, and its place at the heart of Jewish tradition.

1 myth on JewishMythology.com retell how Jewish tradition imagines bible, 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.

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The Sky Is a Working Kitchen, Not a Finished Ceiling

Two sages in Bereshit Rabbah debate whether a king's canvas or a smith's cast mirror better explains how the heavens have held since creation.

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