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31 minutes Posted Dec 12, 2017 at 5:24 pm.

), the guys talk about the difficulty of getting the nephesh concept across in a short video. They discuss the possible gradients of ways to read the Shema.

-17:30), Jon asks “Isn’t there some sort of non material part of me that survives death?” To which Tim replies “Yes.” But it’s not necessarily what you think. Tim says the biblical authors refuse to speculate about what happens after death, only that the authors say we are “with the Lord.”

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-end), the guys discuss the concept of Nephesh in the New Testament. Nephesh is translated with the Greek word “psuche.”

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Want to participate in our Nephesh Q+R? Have a question about your “soul”? Send us your question info@jointhebibleproject.com. Don’t forget to tell us your name and where you’re from!

What happens to our souls after we die?

This is our third episode on the Hebrew word “Nephesh”. It usually gets translated as “soul” in modern bibles. But to the hebrews the word often meant “throat”. This episode Tim and Jon discuss the Hebrew concepts of an afterlife. The Hebrews would often use the word “Nephesh” when talking about eternal life in the Scriptures.

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In part 2 (

He uses Psalm 16 and Psalm 49 as an example.

Psalm

I have set the Lord continually before me;

Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.

Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoices;

My flesh also will dwell securely.

For You will not abandon my nephesh to the grave;

Nor will You ballow Your Holy One to see the pit.

You will make known to me the path of life;

Tim says Bible scholar NT Wright calls it “life after life after death.”

In part 3 (

It’s often used to describe a person as an embodied, living organism.

A few of Jesus’ famous sayings with the word “psuche” include:

Matthew

Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your psuche, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?

Luke

Whoever tries to save their psuche will lose it, and whoever loses their psuche will preserve it.

Psuche can also be used to describe the animating life-energy of a person (very similar to pneuma/ruakh)

Hebrews

For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of psuche and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

1 Thessalonians

May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, psuche and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Show Resources:

Our video on the word Nephesh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_igCcWAMAM

More resources on our website www.thebibleproject.com

N.T. Wright, The Resurrection of the Son of God.

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