Genesis 37: 34-35

 When Joseph was detained and sold by his brothers to the slave traders headed for Egypt, they slaughtered a goat and dipped Joseph's tunic in goat blood, and gave it to Jacob as proof that a wild beast had devoured him. What a way to treat your father. 

Here from The New American Bible is the account of Jacob grief-stricken reaction: "The Jacob rent his clothes, put sackcloth on his loins, and mourned his son for many days. Though his sons and daughters tried to console him, refused all consolation, saying, 'No, I will go down to mourning to my son in the nether world.' Thus did his father lament him."

What interests me here is this is biblical evidence supporting Prager who insists that the Hebrews and Jews believed in an afterlife, presumably heaven and hell. Joseph putatively had a soul, and it survived his "demise".

Here are the same lines from the Holy Bible (KJV): "And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned his son for many days. And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him."

Note that Jacob vows to grieve for Joseph even down into the grave, but whether that means the physical grave only, or implies grieving into the afterlife, is not made clear in this translation of the Bible.

 

 

 When Joseph was detained and sold by his brothers to the slave traders headed for Egypt, they slaughtered a goat and dipped Joseph's tunic in goat blood, and gave it to Jacob as proof that a wild beast had devoured him. What a way to treat your father. 

Here from The New American Bible is the account of Jacob grief-stricken reaction: "The Jacob rent his clothes, put sackcloth on his loins, and mourned his son for many days. Though his sons and daughters tried to console him, refused all consolation, saying, 'No, I will go down to mourning to my son in the nether world.' Thus did his father lament him."

What interests me here is this is biblical evidence supporting Prager who insists that the Hebrews and Jews believed in an afterlife, presumably heaven and hell. Joseph putatively had a soul, and it survived his "demise".

Here are the same lines from the Holy Bible (KJV): "And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned his son for many days. And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him."

Note that Jacob vows to grieve for Joseph even down into the grave, but whether that means the physical grave only, or implies grieving into the afterlife, is not made clear in this translation of the Bible.