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This new critical edition, including Mark Musa's classic translation, provides students with a clear, readable verse translation accompanied by ten innovative interpretations of Dante's masterpiece.

Hell in literature. --- Hell --- Poetry. --- Dante Alighieri,

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Translated into English terza rima verse with introduction and notes by Lacy Lockert.Originally published in 1931.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Hell --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General.

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This book explores the idea that modern Western secular cultures have retained a belief in the concept of Hell as an event or experience of endless or unjust suffering.

Hell in literature. --- Literature, Modern --- History and criticism.

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This treatise argues that the traditional Christian understanding of hell fails to solve the problem of hell from a philosopher's viewpoint, as it has been constructed from a retributive model. The author develops a philosophical account of hell which does not depend on the retributive model.

Hell --- Good and evil --- Evil --- Wickedness --- Ethics --- Philosophy --- Polarity --- Religious thought --- Christianity. --- Christianity --- Controversial literature --- Hell - Christianity - Controversial literature.

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The idea of punishment after death-whereby the souls of the wicked are consigned to Hell (Gehenna, Gehinnom, or Jahannam)-emerged out of beliefs found across the Mediterranean, from ancient Egypt to Zoroastrian Persia, and became fundamental to the Abrahamic religions. Once Hell achieved doctrinal expression in the New Testament, the Talmud, and the Qur'an, thinkers began to question Hell's eternity, and to consider possible alternatives-hell's rivals. Some imagined outright escape, others periodic but temporary relief within the torments. One option, including Purgatory and, in the Eastern Orthodox tradition, the Middle State, was to consider the punishments to be temporary and purifying. Despite these moral and theological hesitations, the idea of Hell has remained a historical and theological force until the present.In Hell and Its Rivals, Alan E. Bernstein examines an array of sources from within and beyond the three Abrahamic faiths-including theology, chronicles, legal charters, edifying tales, and narratives of near-death experiences-to analyze the origins and evolution of belief in Hell. Key social institutions, including slavery, capital punishment, and monarchy, also affected the afterlife beliefs of Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Reflection on hell encouraged a stigmatization of "the other" that in turn emphasized the differences between these religions. Yet, despite these rivalries, each community proclaimed eternal punishment and answered related challenges to it in similar terms. For all that divided them, they agreed on the need for-and fact of-Hell.

Hell --- Endless punishment --- Eternal punishment --- Everlasting punishment --- Hades --- Sheol --- Future life --- Future punishment --- Damned --- Judaism --- History of doctrines --- Islam --- Christianity