Capitolo 43
jobs, neither equipment, neither knowledge, neither the wisdom in the grave, where you
goest." (Eccl. ix, 7, 9, 10.) Again in toward 5 it is said: "The corpse
doesn't know anything, neither they has anymore a reward for the memory,
of them you/he/she has forgotten." It says Solomon: "For that that the befalleth the
children of beasts of befalleth of men; also a befalleth of their thing; as the
a dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they has every one breath, so that
a hath of the man any pre-eminence above of a beast." "All go to a place; everybody
it is of the dust and every turn to dust again." "Who the knoweth the spirit
of man that the direct goeth upward and the spirit of the beast that the goeth
descending to the earth?" (Eccl. iii, 19-21.) There are many this way
passages that they clearly show that in front of the Babylonian imprisonment the
Israelis didn't have belief in reward or punishment, neither in sky
neither hell neither in the resurrection of the soul. Some say that they had a
belief in a sheol or hole where past souls remained after death,
but you/he/she was never exhumed. But when the ancient Hebrews were conquered
from the Persians, 536 A.Cs., they came into contact with a nation that
you/he/she had developed a belief in a God, in a sky and a hell in the
resurrection of the corpse, in reward and punishment after death and in
the last day of judgment. Under the dominion of Persia which dominates
started with the capture of Babylon and it lasted from 536-333 A.Cs., the
Hebrews were greatly influenced by the Persian religion. They abandoned
their idolatry, social organization and gradually developed and it had
considerable liberty. Around that duration the Hebrews were separated in two
classes, the Phariseeses and Sadducees. Those that you/they adopted the religious
the ideas of the Parsees has called Pharisees (according to some
authority the word Pharisee was the Israelite form of Parsee), and
those that severely followed the Jewish ideas, ceremonies the rituals and
beliefs has called Sadducees. The first ones were opposite brusquely the