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Hell / Gehenna

While teh sheol was a place for all the spirits of the dead, by the rm of the Common Era Jews began to imagine two separate places for the righteous and the wicked.

The wicked will share their place of eternal punishment with the evil angels.

Hell was imagined as a place of “unquenchable fire.”

The term “Gehenna” began to be used to denote this place of punishment. The valley of Hinnom, around Jerusalem was a cursed place as it was used in polytheistic times as a place of child sacrifices, where the bodies of the sacrificed children were burned as an offering to the gods.