Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Steve Brailsford <Steve.Brailsford AT NSMG.Seagatesoftware.com>]

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
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-----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 
....