Original sentence: In this view, the Bible contains a variety of texts from different viewpoints, some of which hold that an afterlife exists, while other views held that an afterlife did not exist.Many modern-day critical Bible scholars hold that this is because the ideas of an afterlfie were not widely accepted all of the Israelites.Many statements in the Tanakh appear to state that their will be no afterlife.Rabbinic Judaism reads these texts in a different waym holding that they do not rule out the existence of an afterlife.Rather, these verses are held to imply only certain limitations of the afterlife
Edited sentence: In the Tanakh God's promises to the people of Israel - whether benefits or punishments - seem to concern events of this world and not another (e.Some verses appear to qualify the existence of the afterlife wherein one cannot praise or thank God, though they do not rule out an afterlife in which one receives a reward or punishment for what one has done:.good crops, peace; famine, plague)