It's safe to say that many people, including Christians, get their views of hell more from literature and folklore than from ...

Sheol is a place of waiting where souls are ... Just as there are different views about whether or not there is an afterlife, those who believe in life after death may hold differing views about ...

calling its version of the afterlife Sheol — a shadowy pit where the dead reside and not very much happens. Fast-forward to ...

As these concepts developed, Sheol came to be understood as a temporary ... the idea that there will be punishment or reward in the afterlife based on the way a person has lived.