Hell and Its Rivals : Death and Retribution among Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Early Middle Ages /
Alan E. Bernstein.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I. Foundations -- 1. Gregory the Great -- 2. Inner Death -- 3. The Punishments -- Part II. Alternatives to Hell -- 4. Exceptions to Hell -- 5. Calibrated Justice and Purgatorial Fire -- 6. Visions -- Part III. Hell in Abrahamic Religions -- 7. Rabbinic Judaism -- 8. Byzantine Universalism -- 9. Islam -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index