17 myths
Three times she bound him with the lie he gave her. On the fourth night he named the seven locks, and he woke to find God gone.
No prince of Levi came forward. Moses stood at his brothers' tents until the voice told him the war list was already a list of graves.
On his deathbed Jacob blessed Dan and saw Samson fighting alone, and for one breath he believed the Messiah had finally come to Israel.
When Jacob blessed Dan and compared him to Judah, the tribal princes went silent. Dan led the rearguard, gathered the lost, and produced Samson.
Manoah pressed a messenger for his name, and the answer was that he changes shape every hour and cannot be called anything at all.
Adam's beauty broke into shards, and each man who caught one wore it like a crown until the same gift became the thing that killed him.
To seal a peace with a Philistine king, Abraham handed over seven ewes. God had not asked for them, and Samson, Saul, and Eli's sons paid the bill.
While Israel mourned Moses, seventeen hundred traditions fell from memory. Othniel restored them by sharp reasoning and taught Torah in a bare house.
Twelve thousand came home from Midian with no man dead and no man accused. Then they set gold in front of Moses, and he asked what it was for.
From the ridge Moses sees the whole land and the final day. He bargains to enter as a commoner or as a corpse. Heaven answers no.
Leah had four sons. Rachel had none. She told Jacob to give her children or she would die, and his anger flared at being asked to do God's work.
The spirit seized him between two mountains. He tore them loose and ground them together. A bell went ahead of him through the camp of Dan.
A potter set down a wet jar and forgot the rim. Dust rose in two towns at once. Between them a Nazirite's hair began to ring.
Neighbors saw a child who still needed help with a cup. Heaven was filling a frame that would one day tear gates from walls.
Blind Samson turned the millstone in prison. His captors brought their wives to him, hoping to breed his strength into Philistine sons.
Samson found a fresh jawbone from a donkey only three days old and dropped a thousand Philistines, then nearly died of thirst before a hollow cracked open.
Jacob buried Rachel by the road and pitched his tent at a shepherds tower. Dying, he was shown Gideon and Samson, and he asked for someone else.
