The History of HellA "lively...generously illustrated" (Washington Post Book World) survey of how, over the past four thousand years, religious leaders, artists, writers, and ordinary people in the West have visualized Hell-its location, architecture, purpose, and inhabitants. Illustrations; full-color inserts. |
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Page 52
Alice K. Turner. The Early Christians ass who con- AUL OF TARSUS , THE JEWISH Pharisee verted to become the essential Christian missionary to the Roman world , is our first witness to early Christian thought . Paul , as he renamed ...
Alice K. Turner. The Early Christians ass who con- AUL OF TARSUS , THE JEWISH Pharisee verted to become the essential Christian missionary to the Roman world , is our first witness to early Christian thought . Paul , as he renamed ...
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... earliest surviving works are about the subject at hand . Genesis A and Genesis B , together with Christ and Satan , present Lucifer / Satan's biog- raphy , and there is a very early verse translation of Nicodemus . These poems are said ...
... earliest surviving works are about the subject at hand . Genesis A and Genesis B , together with Christ and Satan , present Lucifer / Satan's biog- raphy , and there is a very early verse translation of Nicodemus . These poems are said ...
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... early on instructive playlets were performed in church as part of the service . They soon took on a life of their own ; the religiously inspired dramatic tradition grew in inventiveness and scope from about the tenth to the sixteenth ...
... early on instructive playlets were performed in church as part of the service . They soon took on a life of their own ; the religiously inspired dramatic tradition grew in inventiveness and scope from about the tenth to the sixteenth ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
The Great Below | 5 |
The Egyptian Book of the Dead | 12 |
Copyright | |
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