The biblical authors display a variety of different ways of speaking about these two anthropological aspects.56 What is consistently taught in both Testaments, however, is a dichotomous or bipartite view.57 That is, human beings consist of two distinct elements: body and soul.58 Furthermore, while the body perishes at death, and so can be separated from the soul, God’s intention is for it to be reunited with the soul in resurrection at the last judgment. This, for example, is what enables Jesus to