The “shadow” (šwt), was portrayed as a black silhouette of the deceased’s
earthly form. It was another aspect of the soul that a person sought to free by
magical means. Finally, the name (rn) was part of the person’s essence,
and having it forgotten or destroyed meant total destruction; and the heart (ib)
was the seat of the intellect. (Christopher B. Hays, A Covenant with Death:
Death in the Iron Age II and its Rhetorical Uses in Proto-Isaiah [Grand
Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2015], 77)
