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“Probably most people who read the Bible think of Sheol as a Jewish kind of Hades, a shadowy place where everyone goes and all are treated the same, a banal and uninteresting netherworld where nothing really happens and people are, in effect, bored for all eternity. But in fact, in most passages of the Bible where Sheol is mentioned, it may well simply be an alternative technical term for the place where an individual is buried—that is, their grave or a pit.”

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Book:Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
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Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife

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Bart D. Ehrman
Bart D. Ehrman

Bart D. Ehrman is a renowned American scholar specializing in early Christian literature and biblical studies. Born on October 5, 1955, he currently holds a professorship at a university. more

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