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Postmortem existence in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament was rooted in mortuary practices and conceptualized through the embodiment of the dead. But this idea of

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When Detective Inspector Stewart Gardener investigates the discovery of a body in a run-down Victorian property in the suburb of Rawston near Leeds, he knows he