72 myths · Page 3 of 3
Balaam could not curse Israel from above. So he drew up a plan to have Israel destroy itself from within, and it worked.
Before the boils, Job ruled Edom as King Jobab, smashed his people's idol, and chose the suffering the Accuser promised him at his own gate.
At Ahasuerus's great feast, Haman and Mordecai were both put in charge of the arrangements. The rabbis saw a trap neither man could walk away from.
The god of Babylon ate a bullock every morning. Daniel proved fraud with ashes on the floor. Then he killed the sacred dragon with iron spikes baked in dough.
Nebuchadnezzar built a golden idol that could speak the divine Name, using the High Priest's stolen diadem. Daniel dismantled the illusion by asking to kiss it.
Nebuchadnezzar presented Daniel with a living dragon the court worshipped. Daniel asked to approach it without a sword and fed it straw packed with nails.
A Samaritan challenged Rabbi Ishmael on the road to Jerusalem by pointing to their sacred mountain. The rabbi's answer reached back to Jacob's camp.
A ruined believer overhears demons boasting their secrets, while three other men face marble, a haunted tree, and a Shabbat spell.
The Philistines locked Israel's captured Ark beside Dagon as a trophy, and by the second dawn their god lay headless and handless on his own threshold.
Seth's descendants learned fire and flood were coming. They carved their star charts on two pillars, one brick for the fire, one stone for the water.
History's first universal king was not satisfied ruling the world. He needed the world to worship him, so he built a structure designed to look like heaven.
Ptolemy fires question after question at the seventy Jewish elders, sure one will falter, and each answers instantly until the king realizes he has lost.
