Immortality of the soul in the OT

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I’m having an interesting conversation with a person who advocates that the OT teaches that the soul was not immortal in the understanding of the Old Testament.
Therefore, conditional immortality is the historical biblical perspective.
Could anyone shed light on this? ESP with references and use of original Hebrew terms.
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Sheol/Hades is first mentioned in Gen 37:35, reporting Jacob’s reaction when he is told Joseph has been killed and eaten by wild animals. In the ESV:
All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted and said, “No, I shall go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” Thus his father wept for him.

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You may find something useful in this earlier thread:
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Sheol and Gehenna, Heaven and Hell Sacred Scripture
The KJV translates “Sheol” as “Hell”’ but that is misleading, for Sheol was a neutral space for departed souls; both righteous and wicked. It was dark and gloomy, but it was not a place of anguish and torment. In the NT, though, we find the neutral Sheol split into two, Heaven for the righteous and Hell for the wicked. In the sense of the abode of the souls of the departed, the name Gehenna appears only in the NT, not the OT, where (in the form Gei-Hinnom) it is used only as the name of the val…
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In Luke 20:27 and following the Sadducees attempt to trip Jesus up by asking that smarmy question about a woman who has been married to each of seven brothers, and asking whose wife she will be in heaven. Clearly the Sadducees (who were the priestly class) did not believe in an after life. But other Jews did.
 
How about this:
‘Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake; some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.’ - Daniel 12:2
 
Hi could you develop this for me a little please. Or point me in the right direction for research. Appreciated
 
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Hi could you develop this for me a little please. Or point me in the right direction for research. Appreciated
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Alright. There are three ideas:
  1. Many good are awakend to everlasting life after death. Daniel 12:22 .
  2. Some evil are awakend to everlasting contempt after death. Daniel 12:22.
  3. Resurrection is awakening the person again, not creating a new person, therefore a soul is the essential constituent bridging the body and the resurrected body.
Daniel 12:2 And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, Some to everlasting life, Some to shame and everlasting contempt.

1 Samuel 2:6 The Lord kills and brings to life; he brings down to Sheol and raises up.

Psalm 16: 9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my soul rejoices; my body also dwells secure.
10 For thou dost not give me up to Sheol, or let thy godly one see the Pit.
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