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Among all ancient peoples, the conviction of the existence of an afterlife prevailed and, among the Greeks, the immortality of the soul. Inexplicably, this did not happen among the Jews who, since they were born as a people in Egypt, allowed more than a thousand years to pass before they began to believe in a life beyond death. They proclaimed the Lord "God of life" (Num 27:16), but always with an earthly perspective.