Editing Caleb (section)

==Traditional Jewish accounts==
[[File:Caleb2.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Traditional tomb of Caleb, [[Kifl Haris]], one candidate for biblical [[Timnat Serah]]]]

Traditional Jewish sources record a number of stories about Caleb which expand on the biblical account.
Jewish traditions identify [[Mered]] with Caleb, and his wife [[Bithiah]] with the princess who rescued [[Moses]] from the river.<ref>[https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/6739857/jewish/13-Facts-You-Should-Know-About-Bithiah.htm#utm_medium=email&utm_source=1_chabad.org_magazine_en&utm_campaign=en&utm_content=content 13 Facts You Should Know about Bithiah Chabad Library]</ref>

One account records that Caleb wanted to bring produce from the land, but that the other spies discouraged him from doing so in order to avoid giving the Israelites a positive impression of Canaan. They only agreed to carry in samples of produce after Caleb brandished a sword and threatened to fight over the matter.<ref>Ginzberg (1911), p. [https://archive.org/details/legendsofjewstra03ginz/page/270/mode/2up 270].</ref> A [[Midrash]] refers to Caleb being devoted to the Lord and to Moses, splitting from the other scouts to tour [[Hebron]] on his own and visit the [[Cave of the Patriarchs|graves of the Patriarchs]].<ref>Ginzberg (1911), p. [https://archive.org/details/legendsofjewstra03ginz/page/272/mode/2up 272].</ref> While in Canaan with the spies, Caleb's voice was so loud that he succeeded in saving the other spies by frightening giants away from them.<ref>Ginzberg (1911), p. [https://archive.org/details/legendsofjewstra03ginz/page/274/mode/2up 274].</ref>