Naked Bible 327: The Old Testament Afterlife and the Psalms of Korah

The Naked Bible Podcast

Dr. Michael S. Heiser

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 6 June 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The Psalms of (or to) the sons of Korah are a small subset of the Psalter. However, their content is significant to the matter of whether the Old Testament has a theology of a positive afterlife, where the righteous are present with the Lord. The sons of Korah were the descendants of the Levite named Korah who rebelled against Moses and Aaron (Numbers 16). When Korah was judged by being swallowed up by the earth into Sheol (the grave in the earth), Numbers 26:1 tells us specifically that the sons of Korah were spared from Sheol. In this episode we discuss how this tradition informs several psalms, which in turn inform us about the afterlife for the righteous.

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0:26.3	Welcome to the NakedBibletpodcast, episode 327, the Old Testament Afterlife and the Psalms
0:32.8	of Korah, the Laban Trastrickland, and he's the scholar, Dr. Michael Heiser.
0:37.6	Hey Mike, how you doing?
0:40.4	Pretty good.
0:41.4	Ready to jump into some, again, topical stuff.
0:46.0	You know, I just love the topics.
0:47.8	I'll confess here, but I like them a lot better than bookstories, but you know, that's just
0:53.7	me.
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0:55.7	Yeah, yeah, well, since the bookstories take, you know, a year they're about, I think
1:01.8	we all enjoy these single topics.
1:04.5	Jude is next.
1:05.5	Ruth, you know, we get some of these, we did overdiast.
1:11.7	This is knock off all the low hanging fruit, do all the, the short ones, that'd be.
1:16.6	Yeah, yeah, a lot of bad idea.
1:19.1	That's still take us, you know, I mean, we've got more than nothing material.
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