to be a clear NT case of a “tour of heaven and hell.”30 It also should affect how we understand 1 Peter 3:19 and its reference to “spirits in prison.”31 In other words, when the New Testament speaks about “the dead,” it has a specific background, one that affirms “the [place of the] dead” as a location containing the disembodied souls of both the righteous and unrighteous (albeit in separate compartments).32 This lends credence to the idea that when the NT writers and later the creeds speak about