4 myths
Each story names the sources it was written from.
Moses wanted one of his sons to inherit the burden of leadership. God chose Joshua instead, then made Moses strengthen him in public.
Jacob's wife had just died when the men of Hebron sent warning. His brother was coming with four thousand soldiers, and the timing was deliberate.
Near Tiberias a hundred-year-old man digs holes for trees he may never taste. Hadrian mocks him, then fills his fig basket with gold when fruit arrives.
The beams still smelled of cut cedar. He did not ask first for a long life. He asked God to keep a dead father's name warm.
