Adam lived 930 years. Noah walked with God and received His covenant. Yet neither one was ever told about heaven, hell, or an afterlife, not a word. This book traces that silence through Genesis, Noah, and Ecclesiastes on the text's own terms, arguing that early Hebrew theology had no developed concept of an afterlife, and that concepts like resurrection and final judgment entered later, through contact with Persian and Babylonian thought. Along the way, it asks why Solomon, offered anything by God, asked only for wisdom, and makes the case that early scripture's real concern was never escaping this world, but living well within it.