Renan FRIGHETTO, Willibaldo RUPPENTHAL NETO

Much more than flesh and bones: the body and the relationship with God in the Hebrew Bible

Muito mais que carne e ossos: o corpo e a relação com Deus na Bíblia Hebraica

Published in War and Disease in Antiquity and the Middle Ages

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This paper aims to analyze how the Hebrew Bible presents the human body, studying the biblical texts with particular attention to important terms for Jewish anthropology, like bāsār, usually translated as “body”, and nefesh, normally translated as “soul”, in order to highlight their particularity. This study intends to present not only the valuation of the body in the Hebrew Bible, but also its importance in the relationship between man and God according to the biblical perspective.