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The Geography of Hell in the Teaching of Jesus: Gehenna, Hades, the Abyss, the Outer Darkness Where There Is Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth is unavailable, but you can change that!

The topic of hell has held a strange fascination for believers through the centuries, becoming the subject of paintings, sermons, books, articles, and much more. For many it has been a source of terror, for most a wellspring of questions. Is there such a thing as hell? How long will it last? Who will go there? Is hell fair? In this study, Kim Papaioannou tackles the topic at its most...

the Old Testament material above, we noted that divine punishment in Ge-hinnom was only one of several punishment-in-a valley motifs. While it is plausible that BW 1 Enoch 27:1–2 reflects the Ge-hinnom texts of Jeremiah, it is equally plausible that it reflects thematically similar texts like Joel 3:1–3 in which the location of punishment is the valley of Kidron or Tyropoeon.68 Whatever the meaning, however, the fact that the word Gehenna is not mentioned indicates that the name of the valley had
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