A genealogy of the hell: from Sheol to the Divine Comedy

This article has how objective to analyze, briefly and synthetically, in which way the imagetic and the imaginary of the hell came up was and grow up in the Christian thought. For that, we will seek to describe the process of the theme, delimiting our work to the non-future and the Judaic sheol (Old...

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Autor: Vasconcelos, Henrique Mata de
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:Brasil
Institución:Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP)
Repositorio:Teoliterária
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/51493
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/teoliteraria/article/view/51493
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:inferno
além-mundo
literatura apocalíptica.
hell
beyond-world
apocalyptic literature
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Sumario:This article has how objective to analyze, briefly and synthetically, in which way the imagetic and the imaginary of the hell came up was and grow up in the Christian thought. For that, we will seek to describe the process of the theme, delimiting our work to the non-future and the Judaic sheol (Old Testament), to the theme of the beyond-world in the contemporary of Jesus (New Testament) and on some further apocryphal apocalypses, as well as we will pursue to comprehend the influence of the religious idea about it in the intercultural relationship of the Judaic people with their neighbors, especially with the Persians and with the Greeks. Finally, we will examine the imagens of the infernal place in the Apocalypse of Paul (Visio Pauli) and in the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, as well as we will point out some images that are in the first one as the second one. Thorough this path we will be able to see a short genealogical synthesis of the rise up and the evolution of this mythological place that still is in the Christian imaginary.