In the first century C.E., two prominent Jewish sects, the Essenes and the Pharisees, taught that the soul survives the body at death.
Ḓanani ḽa u thoma ḽa miṅwaha C.E., zwigwada zwivhili zwa Vhayuda zwine zwa vha Vhaessene na Vhafarisei, zwo funza uri muya u bvela phanḓa u tshi tshila musi muvhili u tshi fa.