We're at the point now in our intermittent forays into the biblical realm of the dead to flesh out (again, pardon the pun) who's who in the Underworld. I noted at the start that I wanted to start with the term metim to see if that term spoke of the human dead, as...
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Discerning the Dead, Part 1
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...