Posted by zazenduckie on April 9, 2007, at 13:04:43
In reply to Re: Up from the grave he arose, posted by Declan on April 8, 2007, at 17:51:55
I recently read a book
"The Last Week: A Day-by-Day Account of Jesus's Final Week in Jerusalem" that said that the resurrection of the dead was a relatively recent development in Jewish theology in the time of Jesus. It said it had begun about 2 centuries before Christ as an answer to when righteous jews who were killed (around the time of the Maccabees) would be rewarded. I think it would be the older definition of Hell that you mentioned,.
> Maybe he goes down into hell to collect (at least some of) the souls of the dead?
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> But hell as in the older Jewish(???) or Greek version, rather than what we think of when we hear the word.
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