Author: Bernstein, Alan E.
Title: The Formation of Hell: Death and Retribution in the Ancient and Early Christian Worlds
Description: Ithaca [NY], Cornell University Press, (1993). orig.boards. 24x16cm, xiii,392 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: The Netherworlds of Greece & Riome: Neutral Death; Moral Death; Porous Death; Useful Death; The Afterlife in Ancient Judaism: Spirits of the Dead; Dividing the Dead; Eternal Punishment; Hell in the New Testament:Destruction; Damnation; The Myth Behind Hell; Tensions in Early Christianity: Divine Sovereignty; Divine Mercy; Eternity Defended; Conclusion.

Keywords: History of Religion, Comparative, Afterlife Hell Rome, Ancient Judaism, Classical Roman, Greece Jewish, Early Christianity, Christian Theology, Doctrine Doctrines