It has been common in recent years for scripture scholars to tell us that the idea of the separation of body and
soul after death —
indeed that any systematic distinction between body and
soul — was alien to the Hebrew vision of the
Old Testament.
«I believe it was the
old Egyptians — a very wise people, probably
indeed much wiser than we know for in the leisure of their ample centuries they had time to think out things — who declared that each individual personality is made up of six or seven different elements, although the Bible only allows us three, namely body
soul and spirit... «Wanting to learn if he can communicate with deceased loved ones, adventurer and trader Allan Quatermain seeks a meeting with the feared Zulu witch - doctor Zikali.