Publication: Pleading for hell: postulates, fantasies and the senselessness of punishment
Pleading for hell: postulates, fantasies and the senselessness of punishment
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Burkert, W. (2009). Pleading for hell: postulates, fantasies and the senselessness of punishment. Numen: International Review for the History of Religions, 56(2–3), 141–160. https://doi.org/10.1163/156852709X404955
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If the ideal of justice includes effective punishment of offenders, an extension into afterlife must be postulated. This still involves all the questionable aspects and paradoxes of punishment that make rational and enlightened argumentation difficult.
A historical survey of ancient tentatives at hell lore shows diverse starting points and interests. There is just a germ of such speculations in Sumerian. When hell fire first appears in Egypt, it goes together with the fear of magic from the dead; in Zoroastrianism and Judaism it is
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Burkert, W. (2009). Pleading for hell: postulates, fantasies and the senselessness of punishment. Numen: International Review for the History of Religions, 56(2–3), 141–160. https://doi.org/10.1163/156852709X404955
