3 myths
The great theological questions of Jewish thought: the nature of God, the problem of evil, free will, and the meaning of chosenness.
3 myths on JewishMythology.com retell how Jewish tradition imagines theology, 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.
Enoch had thirty days left on earth. He told his children that God made every human face like his own, so to spit on a man is to spit on God.
The angel moved from the front of the camp to the rear, set itself between Israel and Pharaoh's chariots, and a different Name rode with it.
Abraham stood before Sodom and argued that justice had rules. Job sat in ashes and said the righteous and wicked were all swept away.
