"Soul-Concepts" in Ancient Near Eastern Mythical Texts and Their Implications for the Primeval History.

In an occidental perspective, influenced by classical Greek and Hellenist philosophy, the soul is the immaterial part of the human, which becomes, in its incorporeality, the immortal "remainder" of a person after his death. The comparaison of soul concepts (cf. Hasenfratz) in Ancient Near Eastern, Egyptian, Greek archaic texts with the data of the Primeval History exhibits indeed a similar "concept of man" (anthropology), but a lesser elaborate concept of "souls" in the Biblical context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]