revived the son of the Israelite woman, and that Ezekiel restored life to many people; yet none of those we have named was a deity by virtue of bringing the dead back to life.

As for curing those born blind, the Torah itself reports that Joseph healed his father Jacob’s eyes after he had lost his sight. Moses, moreover, cast down his staff and it became a serpent with eyes that could see, and he struck the sand with it so that it turned into lice, each insect possessing two eyes with which it could see—yet not one of them was a god on account of such feats.