Regarding the soul and afterlife, I am not going to give you the opinions of other Jews but what the Tanach, especially Torah says about this question of yours. If you read Genesis 2:7, when HaShem formed man from the dust of the earth, He breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man...
How could the NT be about the New Covenant with the House of Israel and the House of Judah according to Jeremiah 31:31? Since the NT is for the Gentiles, could it mean that they must convert to Judaism according to Halacha aka Jewish law? (Isaiah 56:1-8) Then, if the main point of the New...
About the so-called resurrection of Jesus.
IMHO, literal resurrection which in other words would be bodily resurrection, could not have happened to Jesus because he was a Jew and, according to his gospel which was the Tanach, once dead, one will never return from Sheol aka the grave. Hence...