idual simply disappeared. And, as can be seen in the book of Daniel, actual bodily resurrection at the end of earth's time began to be proposed: "Many of those that sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to eternal life, others to reproaches, to everlasting abhorrence (Dan. 12:2). The idea of some kind of bodily resurrection after death was a long time in coming. But in the Exilic period, even though the doctrine regarding "the final disposition of those resurrected from the earth" had not yet taken form, a general belief in bodily resurrection took hold and was to become a basic tenet of Judaism in the rabbinic period (Sonsino & Syme).
Although the idea of resurrection was debated by those who held that the soul died with the body, the Pharisaical belief in the eventual res
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