this present life, similar to what is evidenced throughout the ancient Near Eastern cultures in their burial practices and writings. 2. Believers have a right to expect that their “Living Redeemer” will “in the end” raise them back to physical life again. 3. Job’s references to “skin,” “flesh,” and “eyes” make it clear that the Old Testament believers were not expecting a resurrection of a disembodied state, or a ghostly appearance, but one with a bodily identity.