What second millennium Hebrews and early first millennium Israelites or Judeans, Judahites, actually believed or did is not always retrievable, in fact probably not retrievable, to us. We have some clues.

西元前2000年的希伯来人和前1000年早期的以色列人,或者说犹太人，犹太民族所信仰的和所做的，不是每次，都能复原，事实上可能无法复原，我们掌握了一些线索。

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It's no comfort to me to be told I will survive,because after all, the soul is the key to personal identity,if there's no similar personality, no memories,no beliefs,no retrievable memories of past lives.

能这样存活下去对我来说毫无安慰，因为说到底，灵魂是个人认同感的关键，而如果没有与前世相似的人格，记忆和信仰。

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