Chapter 2 - Keeping body and soul together (part 2)
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author: Paula Gooder
contributor: SPCK - Paula Gooder
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Keeping body and soul together (part 2)
Death and the soul in the Old Testament
A fascinating illustration of the importance of the body to the nephesh is the use of the word to refer to someone who has died recently. Numbers 6.6 forbids a Nazirite from going near a nephesh met (literally a dead nephesh), though elsewhere just the word nephesh on its own is used (e.g. Lev. 22.4; Num. 5.2; 6.11)…
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