Underworld
Who is the Queen of the Underworld?
Persephone
Saul gets rid of all the mediums and yidd’oni from the land. Yet one remains. Where is this medium found?
Endor
What key word rings throughout Qohelet as a kind of exacerbated refrain?
Vanity, Vanity, all is Vanity (hevel, vapour)
T or F There is fire in She'ol
Das ist falsche
For Plato, what is the seat of the ‘self’?
the soul, not the body
What is sheol often paralleled with in the Psalms?
pit or grave
What book in Torah forbids necromancy (but does not say that it does not work in the ancient world).
Deuteronomy
Wisdom in the Book of Proverbs is, in part, based on experience. Incidentally, there are many parallels with what other cultural group of wisdom sayings?
Egyptian
In Roman customs, where was the body placed after death and after washing?
the floor
Plato’s argument that the soul is immortality is based on the idea that opposites are _____.
related (life/death, mortality/immortality)
What is the Hebrew word for that animating force of the body?
nephesh
The term ‘ob’ can refer to a medium and a ________.
Ghost
Which group from the first century CE did not claim there is a resurrection from the dead?
Sadducees
Why were the dead not buried within the city of Rome
to protect against ritual impurity
When a soul has finished its time in the afterlife, whether for their good or their bad deeds, what important choice must the soul make?
What kind of life/role to select for the their next life
Who says to Odysseus:
“Glorious Odysseus: don’t try to reconcile me to my dying. I’d rather serve as another man’s labourer, as a poor peasant without land, and be alive on Earth, than be lord of all the lifeless dead.”
All of a sudden, when Samuel appears from the underworld, what striking realization does the medium have?
She knows Saul is the King
Name that book:
“There is nothing better for mortals than to eat and drink, and find enjoyment in their toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God” (2:24).
Ecclesiastes / Qohelet
In Greek funerals, what comes first, the ekphora or the prothesis?
prothesis
What are the two reasons why Socrates does not fear death?
Might be
i. non existence
and if not then...
ii. communion with everyone
Orpheus descends to the underworld to restore his wife but loses her by disobeying instructions. Later groups were affiliated with Orpheus due to his knowledge of the underworld. What objects have been found among buried members of these groups?
Golden Tablets
While we anticipate a reference to the singular Samuel, what does Saul see emerge from the underworld?
Elohim
According to the Rabbis, in what state does Holy Scripture render the hands?
unclean
Was it the Greeks or the Romans that would put some type of herb around a death house?
BOTH! got emmmmm
According to Plato, whatever unjust action you do on earth will be repaid how many times in the afterlife?
tenfold