Oops. I think this topic derailed
Eden - I like you points on Job 19 and have wondered about that myself, although the language still sounds as though he expected to see God (in the form of the redeemer) on earth and in the flesh.
For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth.
[so this meeting would be as a result of the redeemer standing on earth, not Job going to another realm]
Even after my skin is destroyed,
[after the first death]
Yet from my flesh I shall see God
[so the flesh would have to be restored and the the resurrection earthly]
King James: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God
So to me it sounds like it describes a restoring of the flesh, rather than a transformation to spirit.
FG