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Christianity: Faith, Scripture and Tradition

The Formation of Hell

Death and Retribution in the Ancient and Early Christian Worlds

by Alan E. Bernstein

A study of how the idea of hell developed from ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Jewish views of the dead to the early Christian doctrine of eternal punishment. Bernstein traces competing ideas of a neutral underworld, annihilation and moral punishment.

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