Immortality and the Unseen World: A Study in Old Testament Religion

There is no earthly religion in existence that that doesn't owe its concepts and traditions to an earlier form of itself, and as each system of belief evolves over time, the oldest methods and ideas blur into obscurity. Contemporary generations hold onto what ancestors established, not always willing to trace that belief back to its absolute origin, and what is left is at times a copy of a copy, whereupon the final image is left wanting for clarity.
This was never truer than for the Israelit...