Hell and its rivals
Subtitle: death and retribution among Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the early Middle Ages
By: Alan E. Bernstein
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9781501707803
Subjects: Comparative studies; Judaism; Hell; History of doctrines; Islam; Christianity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Gregory the Great : order in chaos; title: Inner death : hell in the conscience; title: The punishments : slavery, torture, and hell; title: Exceptions to hell : relief and escape; title: Calibrated justice and purgatorial fire; title: Visions : rights to souls; title: Rabbinic Judaism : one fire, two fates; title: Byzantine universalism : the path not taken; title: Islam : the mockers mocked.