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In the Hebrew Bible, the term Sheol is the shadowy abode of the dead. It is often depicted as “down below,” silent, and without active praise of God. The authors describe a shift “from the almost ...

Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman (during His Anglican days) commented : Our Savior, as we suppose, did not go to the abyss assigned to the fallen angels, but to those mysterious mansions where the ...

Jon Levenson, a biblical interpreter to whom attention must be paid, has coauthored this book with Kevin Madigan, a professor at Harvard who studies medieval texts. Because Madigan is near the ...

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Judaism's earliest concepts of the afterlife were minimal and focused on this world, only later developing into beliefs in resurrection and divine judgment, according to a new Russian-language study ...

Israel’s Heritage Minister, Rabbi Amichai Eliyahu, called the discovery: “tangible and moving evidence of Jerusalem’s might and stature during the Hasmonean period.” Experience unlike any other. The ...