scholars that Daniel is referring to the actual resurrection of individuals from the dead, because of the explicit language of everlasting life.203 This is, in fact, the only generally accepted reference to resurrection in the Hebrew Bible. The expression אדמת עפר is probably a double reading, conflating two synonyms.204 “Dust” is used in parallelism to Sheol in Job 17:16*.205 Sheol is often called a land but ארץ rather than אדמה, for example, in Ezek 26:20*; 31:14*, 16*, 18*; 32:18*, 24*.206