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A variation on the theme of the history of the Jewish people from creation to the present day that was very popular in the nineteenth ce Published in Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1843. First American ed. in Boston, MA: Gould & Lincoln, 1851. Reprinted s

...term sheol is a variant for Shuwala, a north Syrian goddess. In Isaiah 28, people who scoff at God say, "We have made a covenant with Death [Mavet/Mot] and w All humans have to die. When people die, their vital element (called nefesh) was thought to leave the body and