I'm going to start going through the passages from the last post that I pulled out for examination from the list of occurrences in the OT for "the dead" (metim). Recall my working hypothesis: The term "the dead" refers to those things that can and do die (they are...
Hebrew terms for spirits
Whittling Away at the Dead
As some of you, no doubt, I've had time to go through the PDF file of the occurrences of (Hebrew) met and metim ("the dead"). You no doubt noticed that the overwhelming majority of these instances are pretty straightforward and refer to dead human beings--victims of...
A Biblical View of Ghosts
This might seem like a weird way to kick off the Naked Bible blog, but it's actually a good subject for illustrating what will make this blog different than any other Bible study blog on the web. How? Just stay with me through the series. Christians typically assume...