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  • From: Steve Brailsford <Steve.Brailsford AT NSMG.Seagatesoftware.com>
  • To: "'a.c.smith AT juno.com'" <a.c.smith AT juno.com>, Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: hebrew: purgatory?
  • Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 09:09:05 -0500


What Tanakh references could be used to support such a position?
I have seen some that infer life after death (e.g. "I am the God of Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob". Interpreted by Paul, "God is a God of the living, not the
dead."
But a purgatorial interpretation is not found, unless you include the four
books of Maccabees
in the canon.

Steve Brailsford
Seagate Software
steve.brailsford AT seagatesoftware.com
(407) 531-7543


-----Original Message-----
From: a.c.smith AT juno.com [mailto:a.c.smith AT juno.com]
Sent: Sunday, January 17, 1999 10:15 AM
To: Biblical Hebrew
Subject: hebrew: purgatory?


Dear b-hebrew members:
I found the following on a rabbi's web page - perhaps it's off-topic, but
I found it interesting - is there any basis at all for such things in the
actual text of the Tanakh?

Jews believe in life after death. We call it the World to Come.
Gehinom -- a purification process -- is part of the World to Come. When
a
person dies, his soul gets a chance to "think objectively" about his
lifetime spent on earth. Depending on how the person spent his life,
this
....




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