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RE: hebrew: purgatory?

From: Jim West <jwest AT Highland.Net>
To: Steve Brailsford <Steve.Brailsford AT NSMG.Seagatesoftware.com>
Cc: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
Subject: RE: hebrew: purgatory?
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 11:12:50 +0000

At 09:09 AM 1/18/99 -0500, you wrote:
>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.

As the 4 maccabean texts were not composed in Hebrew, they found no place in
the Hebrew canon. In the Hebrew canon there is NO support for purgatory.

Best,

Jim

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Jim West, ThD
Quartz Hill School of Theology

jwest AT highland.net
http://web.infoave.net/~jwest

hebrew: purgatory?, Andrew C Smith, 01/17/1999
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- RE: hebrew: purgatory?, Steve Brailsford, 01/18/1999
- RE: hebrew: purgatory?, Jim West, 01/18/1999