The notion of an infernal place of punishment for ""undesired"" elements in human culture and human nature has a long history both as religious idea and as cultural metaphor. This book brings together a wide array of scholars who examine Hell as an idea within the Christian trad…
The notion of an infernal place of punishment for "undesired" elements in human culture and human nature has a long history both as religious idea and as cultural metaphor. This book brings together a wide array of scholars who examine hell as an idea within the Christian tradit…
The notion of an infernal place of punishment for "undesired" elements in human culture and human nature has a long history both as religious idea and as cultural metaphor. This book brings together a wide array of scholars who examine Hell as an idea within the Christian tradit…
"It can be said that the words 'heaven" and 'hell" are thrown around flippantly these days. It seems they have become part of our vernacular without much thought or concern about what they really mean. The reality of heaven and hell is a hotly-debated topic spurring countless co…
- Why does He fail to mention hell in Genesis as the price for sin? - Why doesn't the Old Testament ever speak of hell? - Why does Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles, never once mention hell? - Why was hell not part of early Church established doctrine?
From the ancient Book of the Dead to Dante's Divine Comedy, the living have attempted to describe the world of the dead. Tours of Hell focuses on one form of that attempt: the tours of hell found in Jewish and Christian apocalypses of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages spa…
Tours of Hell explores the tours of hell found in Jewish and Christian apocalypses of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, spanning a thousand years of human history.
Based on the author's thesis, University of Pennsylvania. Bibliography: p. [175]-190. Includes index.
