TY  - BOOK
AU  - Steiner,Richard C.
TI  - Disembodied souls: the Nefesh in Israel and kindred spirits in the ancient Near East, with an appendix on the Katumuwa Inscription 
T2  - Society of Biblical Literature ancient Near East monographs
SN  - 9781628370782 (hardcover binding : alk. paper)
AV  - PJ4819.N44 S74 2015
U1  - 492/.29 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Atlanta
PB  - SBL Press
KW  - Bible
KW  - Old Testament
KW  - Language, style
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish
KW  - Nefesh (The Hebrew word)
KW  - Inscriptions, Aramaic
KW  - Turkey
KW  - Zincirli (Gaziantep İli)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-198) and indexes
N2  - Biblical scholars have long claimed that the Israelites "could not conceive of a disembodied nefesh [soul]." In this book, Richard C. Steiner rejects that claim based on a broad spectrum of textual, linguistic, archaeological, and anthropological evidence spanning the millennia from prehistoric times to the present. The biblical evidence includes a prophecy of Ezekiel condemning women who pretend to trap the wandering souls of sleeping people - prophecy that has been only partially understood until now because of the obscure technical terms that it contains. The extrabiblical evidence suggests that a belief in the existence of disembodied souls was part of the common religious heritage of the peoples of the ancient Near East.--Provided by publisher
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