HELL... Wasn't Built in a Day : How Humanity Spent Five Thousand Years Reinventing Eternal Punishment

Hell was not always what we think it is today.Long before fire, demons, eternal punishment, and Dante's descending circles, ancient cultures imagined the afterlife very differently. Mesopotamians pictured a bleak underground realm of dust. Egyptians developed elaborate systems of judgment. Greeks populated Hades with shades, punishments, and heroes. Early Jewish traditions spoke of Sheol. Christia...