#incorruptibility

Late ancient Jewish sources also refer to the incorruptible bodies of several holy personages. Rabbinic midrash presents invulnerability to  decay as part of the paradisiacal state of humanity's original creation "in God's image": for example, in a list of the changes that Adam experienced with his expulsion from Eden, the Abot de Rabbi Nathan states that one of Adam's new attributes is that "the worm and maggot will have power over him" (ששלטה בה דמה ותולעה). Several biblical patriarchs and matriarchs' bodies are similarly characterized in a tradition of the Babylonian Talmud, which states that "our rabbis taught that there were seven over whom the worms had no power, and they were Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Aaron, Miriam, and Benjamin son of Jacob." In Sifre Deuteronomy, Rabbi Eliezer b. Jacob maintains that Moses' undecayed state continues into the present, saying that "if anyone should touch the flesh of Moses, its natural force would even now spring forth in all directions." Well rabbinic sources most often associated such corporeal incorruptibility with biblical figures, some stories also depict Rabbi Eleazar b. Rabbi Shimon's corpse similarly surviving for years impervious to "the worms" and even producing fresh blood when hair is plucked from the rabbi's head.

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