[I am not sure whether this is the correct place for asking questions to Bart, is there another one?]

I understand that there isn’t such a thing as an afterlife in the Hebrew bible, but what does psalm 49 mean to say in ** you do not have permission to see this link **, “But God will redeem my life from Sheol, for He will surely take me to Himself. Selah”? What kind of redemption, for whom is that?

I found a ** you do not have permission to see this link ** (weird name!), that says about this issue:

“Now this is a narrow look. He’s just looking at the psalms of Korah. There are other things that we could talk about. For instance, would a people who really believe that you just died and that’s it, no afterlife, really bury people with personal items? Would they really do that? Bart? Hello? No, they wouldn’t.”

Doesn’t verse 15 hint that even in classical Judaism there occasionally were afterlife expectations? Else the psalm would have to be read as the expectation that you are going to be take out of the grave and continue to live in the physical body.