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- The history of hell doesn’t begin with the Old Testament. Instead, hell took shape in the 2nd century from Mediterranean cultural exchange.
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Sep 14, 2024 · Hell, in many religious traditions, the abode, usually beneath the earth, of the unredeemed dead or the spirits of the damned. Hell figures in religious cosmologies as the opposite of heaven, the nadir of the cosmos, and the land where God is not.
- Carol Zaleski
Hel (1889) by Johannes Gehrts, depicts the Old Norse Hel, a goddess-like figure, in the location of the same name, which she oversees. The modern English word hell is derived from Old English hel, helle (first attested around 725 AD to refer to a nether world of the dead) reaching into the Anglo-Saxon pagan period. [1]
Apr 27, 2020 · In the New Testament, Jesus and his disciples introduce a new term for hell, the Hebrew word Gehenna. According to Jewish tradition, Gehenna was a valley outside of the city walls of Jerusalem that doubled as a trash dump, where garbage was continually burned.
- Dave Roos
Oct 29, 2023 · The history of hell doesn't begin with the Old Testament. Instead, hell took shape in the 2nd century from Mediterranean cultural exchange.
Apr 18, 2018 · Beginning in the fourth century B.C., after the Greek King Alexander the Great conquered Judea, elements of Greek culture began to influence Jewish religious thought. By time of the first...
Jun 10, 2012 · Plato’s Myth of Er, contained in the Republic, greatly influence subsequent theological and philosophical thinking, up to our very idea of heaven and hell. Er was slain in battle, but came back...
4 days ago · St. Basil the Great (c. 330-379 AD) Also known as Basil of Caesarea, was the Bishop of Caesarea Mazaca in Cappadocia, Asia Minor. Basil was an early Church Father who defended the orthodox faith against the Arian heresy. As bishop of Caesarea, he wrote several works on monasticism, theology, and canon law.
