In Alma 11:43 it says that in the resurrection, "the spirit and the body shall be reunited again in its perfect form; both limb and joint shall be restored to its proper frame, even as we now are at this time. . ." According to Hugh Nibley, the mention of "both limb and joint" is a striking thing, because in the last issue of Zeitschrift fur agyptische Sprache, the basic clearinghouse of Egyptological stuff, there's a long article by Emma Brunner-Traut on this subject. This both limb and joint is an Egyptian expression. It's an interesting thing that the Jews, the Arabs, and the Egyptians had no word for body. They just think of the body as a collection of members. . . . you are just an assemblage of arms, legs, joints and other members. They always refer to it that way. They would never use the expression "resurrection of the body." They would say, "the resurrection of the body with its members added, and the joints that have to go with the members." It's a peculiar thing because you don't find that in the Bible. . . . That's what Alma says here, "both limb and joint," as if they didn't belong to the body. Well, the Egyptians, the Hebrews, and the Greeks before Homer didn't have a word for body. Homer had no word for body; he used guia, which means members. . . It's a very interesting thing that the ancients didn't think of the body as one particular unit. Surprising isn't it? They divided it up. [Hugh W. Nibley, Teachings of the Book of Mormon, Semester 2, pp. 320-321]