Greek thought's great contribution to afterlife belief is the immortality of the soul, popularized by Plato: a deathless self that survives the body and is better off without it.
Imported citation, not independently checked: Plato, Phaedo
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Was the Resurrection a Greek Idea?
Was the Resurrection a Greek Idea?
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Genesis has the human formed from dust and made living by breath, and the baseline is "dust you are, and to dust you shall return" (Genesis 3:19).
Imported citation, not independently checked: Genesis 2:7; 3:19
The entire Greek stratum of the Hebrew Bible and Biblical Aramaic is four words, and all four are musical instruments: a lyre, a psaltery, pipes and a trigon.
Imported citation, not independently checked: The Persian Passband; Daniel 3
In the same corpus the Old Iranian stratum runs 38 lexemes and concentrates in law and political office at 39.5 percent against an 8.3 percent chance expectation.
Imported citation, not independently checked: The Persian Passband; Benjamin J. Noonan, Non-Semitic Loanwords in the Hebrew Bible
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