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Encyclopedia entry: soul
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- The Oxford Companion to the Body
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soul
In the Hebrew scriptures, the human being is a single and undivided entity: the soul and body are not clearly distinguished from one another. Thus any discussion of life after death points to the resurrection of the body rather than the immortality of the soul (Isaiah 26: 19 and Daniel 12: 2). Jewish and Old Testament scholars have debated whether the authors of the Hebrew scriptures ever thought of the body and soul as distinct entities; certainly, later Jewish writers have interpreted passages such as Ecclesiastes 12: 7 — ‘Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was; and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it’ — to mean that at the death of the ...
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Article: SOULS, BODIES, SPIRITS: THE DRIVE TO ABOLISH ...
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life;
December 1, 1998 ;
370 words
...SOULS, BODIES, SPIRITS: THE DRIVE TO ABOLISH ABORTION SINCE 1973. By KERRY N. JACOBY. Praeger. 230 pp. $59.95. There has been a distinct ...
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