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The Penguin Book of Hell
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Penguin Random House Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: ZYYN9EY
EAN: 9780143131625
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10+
Zustellung: Mi, 26.08.2026
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CHF 27.50
Beschreibung
"From the Bible through Dante and up to Treblinka and Guantánamo Bay, here is a rich source for nightmares. " -The New York Times Book ReviewThree thousand years of visions of Hell, from the ancient Near East to modern AmericaFrom the Hebrew Bible's shadowy realm of Sheol to twenty-first-century visions of Hell on earth, The Penguin Book of Hell takes us through three thousand years of eternal damnation. Along the way, you'll take a ferry ride with Aeneas to Hades, across the river Acheron; meet the Devil as imagined by a twelfth-century Irish monk-a monster with a thousand giant hands; wander the nine circles of Hell in Dante's Inferno, in which gluttons, liars, heretics, murderers, and hypocrites are made to endure crime-appropriate torture; and witness the debates that raged in Victorian England when new scientific advances cast doubt on the idea of an eternal hereafter. Drawing upon religious poetry, epics, theological treatises, stories of miracles, and accounts of saints' lives, this fascinating volume of hellscapes illuminates how Hell has long haunted us, in both life and death.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Scott G. Bruce
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2019
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Detailformat
- Taschenbuch
Anzahl Seiten
- 320