"... Against common scholarly opinion, even early Jewish sources often distinguish soul from body. We might expect this distinction in Josephus and other Hellenized sources, but it also appears in many sources traditionally viewed as less Hellenized. Jewish sources, both those traditionally regarded as more Hellenized and other sources, also usually embraced the immortality of the soul. Some even used various forms of the Greek idea of the body as a tomb. (Wisdom of Solomon 9:15; Josephus, War 2.154-55) ... In Romans as in Galatians, the “flesh” offers an inadequate response to God’s righteous standard in the law (Romans 7:5, 14, 25; 8:3–4, 7; compare 2:28; 3:20); the Spirit, by contrast, empowers true righteousness, providing an internal rather than external law (Romans 8:2, 4; compare 7:6; Galatians 3:2, 5; 5:18, 23). The mind of the Spirit, then, is a mind led by righteousness such as embodied in the principles of the law (compare Romans 8:2), perhaps fulfilling the ideal of meditation on the law (Deuteronomy 6:6; Joshua 1:8; Psalm 1:2; 119:15, 23, 48, 78, 148) and providing obedience (Ezekiel 36:27; compare Deuteronomy 5:29; 30:6). This mind directed by the Spirit is undoubtedly at least part of what it means to be “led by the Spirit” (Romans 8:14; compare Galatians 5:16–23) ..."