Best of all, you can “go to hell” and visit the five so-called portals beyond purgatory yourself. Gehenna Few places seem as synonymous with the netherworld than Gehenna, which is the Greek ...

"And black Gehenna call'd, the type of Hell"). Inspired by William Blake's example of being both a poet and an artist and bookmaker, Baskin's first printed book, On a Pyre of Withered Roses, was a ...

Gehenna developed as an idea of a place of punishment for those who had lived immoral lives. It is the Jewish equivalent of the Christian Hell. As these concepts developed, Sheol came to be ...

Sheol came to be thought of as a place of waiting, where a person’s soul could either be purified and sent on to Gan Eden or sent for punishment in Gehenna. Jews understand this to mean that ...