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Judaism: Self, Death and the Afterlife

She'ol and the Reticence of the Tenakh

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Recall questions on She'ol and the Tenakh's reticence about the afterlife, reward and punishment in this life, Daniel on resurrection, and Saul's consultation of the medium at Endor.

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What happens when Saul consults the medium at Endor in 1 Samuel 28, and what does it suggest about the dead?

Key term

Define She'ol.

Key term

Which book of the Tenakh gives the clearest statement of resurrection?

Questions from this subtopic

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  1. 1

    Define She'ol.

    Model answer

    The shadowy underworld of the Tenakh to which the dead descend.

  2. 2

    How is existence in She'ol described?

    Model answer

    As a dim, silent and inactive state, without praise of God and without distinction between the righteous and the wicked.

  3. 3

    Is She'ol presented as a place of punishment?

    Model answer

    No, it is the common destination of all the dead rather than a place of reward or judgement.

  4. 4

    Why is the Tenakh's treatment of life after death described as reticent?

    Model answer

    It says very little about the fate of the dead, concentrating instead on how life is to be lived and on God's dealings with Israel in this world.

  5. 5

    How were divine reward and punishment normally understood in the Tenakh?

    Model answer

    As worked out within this life, in the prosperity or the suffering of the nation and of the individual.

  6. 6

    Which book of the Tenakh gives the clearest statement of resurrection?

    Model answer

    Daniel, which speaks of many who sleep in the dust awaking, some to everlasting life and some to reproach.

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