Introduction -- A survey of death and Hades personified. Death and Hades in the Greco-Roman world -- Death and Hades (Sheol) in the Old Testament -- Death and Hades in Second Temple literature -- The end of death and Hades in the New Testament -- The battle for the keys to the underworld -- Compartmentalization of the underworld. Paradise / Abraham's bosom -- Abyss / Tartarus -- Gehenna / Lake of fire -- Descensus ad inferos in the New Testament -- Descensus ad inferos in Revelation 1:18 -- Conclusion
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 31, 2014)
