Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Peter Kirk" <peterkirk AT ozemail.com.au>]

Liz, where in the gospel of John or elsewhere in the NT do you find the
concept of a disembodied spirit or disembodied god? I ask because I wonder
if there is really a difference here between Jewish and early Christian
beliefs. The only reference I can think of is to the "unclean spirits" in
the gospels, but 1) these are earlier than the gospel of John 2) while they
could be expelled from one body, they had to immediately find another body
as they could not exist apart from a body. I won't go into more detail only
because this tends to go off topic.

Peter Kirk
peter.r.kirk AT ntlworld.com
http://web.onetel.net.uk/~peterkirk/
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:b-hebrew-
> bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Lisbeth S. Fried
> Sent: 08 February 2003 06:26
> To: Biblical Hebrew
> Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] [b-hebrew nefarious nefesh
> 
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> The Hebrew bible does not know of disembodied spirits or
> of disembodied gods or God.
> I suspect the NT doesn't either until you get to G. John.
> Liz
> >