O homem e a morte no Antigo Testamento.

This article aims to analyze the understanding of death in the Old Testament, showing the three ways how it appears - as a linguistic element, a cosmic power, and biological end. The death, expressed by darkness and the desert, is the source of impurity and suffering, completely opposed not only to life but also to the creation. Like with life, death also defines the human being, once it is understood as the end of the relationship with God, that only God can remake. The afterlife, very different from what many imagine, is not a positive reality in Old Testament, but a lonely and absent situation, far from being something to wish for. The human, completely marked by mortality, finds in death his tragic end, which only light of hope isn't in his nature but in the power of God that being the Creator of all things, can create man again by resurrection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]