Alan E. Bernstein, professor of history at the University of Arizona, is helpful in defining a concept of hell. He makes a distinction between two kinds of death. The first he calls a “neutral death” where all humans die with no judgment between the just and the unjust. Sheol is this concept of death. The second, he calls a “moral death” which developed later in Greek mythology where humans are rewarded or punished in an afterlife on the basis of their life upon earth. This moral
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