The idea of an artifact made conscious is an ancient theme of mythology, appearing for example in the Greek myth of Pygmalion, who carved a statue that was magically brought to life, and in medieval Jewish stories of the Golem, a magically animated homunculus built of clay.

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100 ), where, according to Murphy, as a result of the Jewish worship of one God, " pagan mythology fell into contempt.

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Some Jewish scholars, including Dov Noy, a professor of folklore at Hebrew University and founder of the Israel Folktale Archives, and Howard Schwartz, Jewish anthologist and English professor at the University of Missouri – St. Louis, have discussed traditional Jewish stories as " mythology ".

According to Schwartz, the Jewish people continue to elaborate on, and compose additions to, their traditional mythology.

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Mulisch often incorporated ancient legends or myths in his writings, drawing on Greek mythology ( e. g. in De Elementen ), Jewish mysticism ( in De ontdekking van de Hemel and De Procedure ), well known urban legends and politics ( Mulisch was politically left-wing, once signing a book " dedicated in admiration " to Fidel Castro ).

It is not the same as the older flat Earth model implied in some mythology, as was the case with the biblical Jewish cosmology.

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His verse, in Yiddish and Polish, concerned Jewish and Polish mysticism, history and mythology, and he attempted to bridge the gulf between Polish and Yiddish culture.

According to Jewish mythology, in the Garden of Eden there is a Tree of life or the Tree of Souls that blossoms and produces new souls, which fall into the Guf, the Treasury of Souls.

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Jewish astrology developed independently from the mythology and star-gazing of the ancient Greek and Roman civilisations.

The Ziz ( Hebrew: ) is a giant griffin-like bird in Jewish mythology, said to be large enough to be able to block out the sun with its wingspan.

The Prophecy of Seventy Septets ( or literally ' seventy times seven ') appears in the angel Gabriel's reply to Daniel, beginning with verse 22 and ending with verse 27 in the ninth chapter of the Book of Daniel, a work included in both the Jewish Tanakh and the Christian Bible ; as well as the Septuagint.

According to Rashi, the ladder signified the exiles that the Jewish people would suffer before the coming of the Jewish Messiah: the angels that represented the exiles of Babylonia, Persia, and Greece each climbed up a certain number of steps, paralleling the years of the exile, before they " fell down "; but the angel representing the last exile, that of Rome or Edom, kept climbing higher and higher into the clouds.

The Hebrew term in Isaiah 14: 12, became a dominant conception of a fallen angel motif in Enochic Judaism, when Jewish pseudepigrapha flourished during the Second Temple period, particularly with the apocalypses.

Jewish literature such as the Book of Enoch mentions Metatron as an archangel, called the " highest of the angels " and the " heavenly scribe ", though acceptance of this angel is not canonical in all branches of the faith.

One of Samael's greatest roles in Jewish lore is that of the angel of death.

In Jewish lore, Samael is said to be the angel of death, the chief ruler of the Fifth Heaven and one of the seven regents of the world served by two million angels ; he resides in the Heaven.

The New Testament, following older Jewish tradition, attributes healing to the Pool of Bethesda when the waters are " stirred " by an angel.

In Jewish folklore, Rahab ( noise, tumult, arrogance ) is a mythical sea monster, a dragon of the waters, the " demonic angel of the sea ".

It is a remarkable fact that later theology can be proved to have borrowed the doctrine of the guardian angel for Jewish Christianity.

It is in Jewish Christian theology that the angel of peace occurs, who is charged with the task of receiving the soul as it leaves the body and leading it to Paradise.

Azrael is the name commonly used for the angel of death in some Jewish, Christian and Islamic traditions.

Satan, presented in the Hebrew Bible as subordinate to God's designs, is pictured in Jewish pseudepigrapha as a chief evil figure opposed to God, as ruler of demons and from 2 Enoch as a fallen angel cast out of heaven.

When this description was interpreted as regarding an angel, not a human king, the image of the fallen morning star or angel was applied to Satan both in Jewish pseudepigrapha and by early Christian writers, following the transfer of the Lucifer myth to Satan in the pre-Christian century.

For the angel in Jewish mythology, see Samael.

His name means " silence ", and he is based on an angel from Jewish mythology.

In Jewish folklore, Duma is the angel of silence and death's stillness ; the Hebrew word " Dumah " means silence.

is a fallen angel of apocryphal Jewish and Christian tradition that ranked in the heavenly hierarchy as one of the Grigori ( meaning " Watchers " in Greek ).

This man explains to Daniel that he was delayed by the " Prince of Persia " ( 10: 13 ), but was helped by " Michael, one of the chief princes " ( a reference to the archangel Michael, who was recognized in Jewish literature to be a chief angel guarding over Israel ).

By " take Mary as your wife " the angel is referring to the second stage of the Jewish marriage ritual that saw the bride move into the husband's house.

Welle ( p. 260 ) cites an anecdote told by Martin Luther in a lecture on Genesis 32 ( the wrestling of Jacob with the angel ) published in 1580, according to which there was a famous Jewish wrestling master at the court of Frederick.

Hadraniel ( or Hadarniel, among other variant spellings ), whose name means " majesty greatness of God ," is an angel in Jewish Angelology assigned as gatekeeper at the second gate in heaven.

Several popular dictionaries of angels, such as Gustav Davidson A dictionary of angels: including the fallen angels ( 1967 ) repeat the claim that Jehoel was ( in unidentified Jewish texts ) the chief angel of the Seraphim.