{"id":65544,"date":"2019-11-10T15:13:27","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T13:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=65544"},"modified":"2023-06-05T16:24:51","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T13:24:51","slug":"sheol-popular-belief-or-poetic-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/sheol-popular-belief-or-poetic-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheol: Popular Belief Or Poetic Fiction?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[445,511,362],"acf":{"old_id":"65544","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":54356,"related_cahpter":"348","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Prophetic visions of the netherworld","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">14:9 \u201cSheol below stirs for you to greet your coming. It rouses the shades, all the chiefs of the earth. It raises from their thrones all the kings of the nations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the most part, Sheol in the Bible is imagined as a vast and deep pit that swallows those who have died, who thus know nothing but darkness and silence after their deaths. Here, however, the poet imagines an assembly of spirits of the dead, greeting their king, an idea loosely analogous to the representation of Hades in the sixth book of the Odyssey. It is hard to know if this whole picture reflects popular belief or is rather a useful&#8211;and vivid&#8211;poetic fiction.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From: Robert Alter, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Hebrew Bible, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. Norton &amp; Co., 2019, ad loc. 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