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  • From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Re: nephesh mot]
  • Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 02:48:38 -0700

On 27/08/2003 00:58, furuli AT online.no wrote:


I keep reading the above in different words, from
various posters, and I still issue the challenge to
prove it. Who can prove that this concept of
NEFESH=soul found in the Intertestamental Writings,
the Mishna, and the New Testament was simply adopted
from the Greeks? Counter to "the Hebrew mind."
Wouldn't it be better for us to admit that this is
merely a working assumption? Not a fact.


... I dispute that you find an immaterial soul (YUCH) in the NT, but the teaching of the soul in the NT is exactly the same as in the Tanakh, ...

For once I agree with Rolf on this one. The concept of the immortal soul was not an original part of Christianity any more than of Jewish religion. Early Christianity shared with second temple Judaism a concept of the resurrection of the body, i.e. of the complete person, but not of the separate immortality of the soul.


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