2 myths
Myths, legends, and mystical writings about Books from across Jewish tradition.
2 myths on JewishMythology.com retell how Jewish tradition imagines books, 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.
The law had burned with the city. Ezra was told he was about to be taken up out of the world, and he asked for forty days before he went.
Candle smoke clung to the open Zohar while a stubborn scholar ran his finger under a Spanish word that had no business on an ancient page.
