And
the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households
and all the people who belonged to Korah and all their goods. So they
and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol, and the earth
closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly.
//Korah was a troublemaking rich Israelite who insisted everybody was
equal. Especially him. He had as much right to be a priest as Aaron,
God's appointed. So Moses said okay, let Korah and his 250 followers
bring their fire pans before God, with the incense burning. We shall see
whether God accepts them.
God
doesn't. He opens up the mouth of the earth and swallows all 250 of
them into Sheol, the Jewish underworld. Sheol was a place under the
earth of shadowy subsistence where souls descended after they died. In
early Jewish thought, the soul gradually wasted away there, but in the
second century B.C., some Jews began to imagine the soul would return to
the body in a physical resurrection (see the book of Daniel, written
about 165 B.C.)
Koran,
however, doesn't die! He and his followers fall alive into the realm of
the dead. The first mention of Sheol, and the first living dead. It
makes me wonder … with our Gothic fascination with the underworld, why
have there been no movies written about this event?
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