Ancient Near East
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Would you say that the Ancient Near East view of death is more akin to current Western ideas of eternal life after death? And, for that matter, the idea of judging souls that is evident in the Book of the Dead from Ancient Egypt, akin to the Christian belief in the Last Judgment?
