Guehinnom

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Tombs in the Valley of Hinnom.

The Hinnom Guei ( Heb. Valley of Hinnom, or , visited Greek by Gehenna) is a narrow and deep valley to the south and south-west of Jerusalem , corresponding to the
It is generally considered that the valley passes east of the current Old City , south of Mount Zion and leads to the river Cardon.

The valley is long associated with idolatrous worship, which includes the most infamous practice of infanticide in the ritual fire. Then converted into a landfill site which emanates the stench for miles around, Gehenna acquired in later Jewish literature, both rabbinic and Christian apocalyptic, a metaphorical dimension, becoming a place of terrible suffering, then continues after death for sinners. She was also famous for being the place of confinement of lepers and plague victims. However, while it is a place of passage, even the name of a process of purification of souls in Jewish thought , it merges under the influence of Greek thought, with the underworld in Christian thought, then Muslim, the Jahannam the Qur'an no longer had any relationship to the Wadi er-Rababi.

The Anthroponymy , the names and generally the onomastic word is derived from the original Guei Hinnom and Gehenna contemporary given names that are now attached to an original fuzzy Judeo-Christian female names such as Hell, then Gehenn then Jehenne or Jehann 'Or Jehan, with changing fonts and sounds, having gone from the G J. However, there is the subtlety and the names deriving from Hell have no connection or relation names Jihane, Jehad, Jihane, Jihane or Jehan, which can be found in North Africa or the Middle East, those names being drawn from the word jihad means struggle or effort. Despite the resemblance, there is no link between the names John , Jane, Joan and Jehan or other derivatives, which themselves are derived from Sanskrit and Hebrew, "jan" means "give birth". In the name Yohanan , composition of YHWH or "Jeho-vav," God and "Hanan," merciful "God gives grace." The same names have so many causes.

Geography

Map of Jerusalem with its walls at the time of the Second Temple. The valley extends south and southwest. Today, the Mount Zion is outside the walls of the Old City , and Valley Tyropoeon was partially filled.

The Valley of Hinnom, begins near the Jaffa Gate and headed south in the southwest corner of the city. She turned sharply eastward along the south to reach the valleys of Tyropoeon and Qidrn near the southeast corner of the city. It expands around the junction of the valleys and Tyropoeon Qidrn.

The Gue Hinnom in Hebrew Bible

Valley of Hinnom is mentioned for the first time in Jos. 15:8 to describe the boundary between the territory of the tribe of Judah and that of the tribe of Benjamin.
The King Solomon erects high places to the idols of Moab and ammonites at a place called the Tophet . Infanticide is still ongoing at the time of Jeremiah , that the invective Hyrosolimitains engaged in this idolatrous worship, and the commission of abominations , up to prophesy the destruction of Jerusalem.
His contemporary, King Josiah , also fierce opponent of the cult, although there Baal is not directly mentioned, profane place by spreading human bones , after which the valley is a dump, lights burning continuously to keep waste to a low level .

Valley of Hinnom and the Tophet have already acquired a reputation detestable time of the prophets Isaiah promises to the king of Assyria his final resting place, and prophesies that after the issuance of Zion, the corpses of those who raised against YHWH burns permanently . However, these prophecies, which feed the designs of the Last Judgement , contain no allusion to an afterlife, and instead seem to relate this world , referring to listeners familiar unpleasant images.

The Gue Hinnom in apocalyptic literature

Although the idea of divine retribution for good and the wicked is already in the Hebrew Bible, notably in Daniel 12:2 , the idea of a separate Hades Sheol (in which find themselves without all the dead Honours), does not appear on paper before the apocalyptic literature , a flourishing genre in the post-exilic Jewish culture. The presence of common themes to it and rabbinic literature, which strikes yet anathema to anyone studying these non-canonized books , and the Gospels , suggests that these ideas were highly prevalent in the population.

It seems there are two definitions of Hell:

• The Book of Enoch describes a Sheol divided into four compartments: the first, the just made await with glee the Day of Judgement, in the second, the moderately good await their reward in the third, Guehinnom, sinners are punished and await their Judgement at the resurrection, the fourth being a place of eternal torment and stigma for those who do not even deserve resurrection.
  Alexandrian Jewish literature identifies this hell to Hades , Sheol, which means also in the Septuagint.
• On the other hand, always in the Book of Enoch, the Guhenne still seems to be in the Valley of Hinnom, a place cursed among all the holy valleys, but this is the place of eternal torment after the Last Judgement . It is also understood as meaning that the author of 4 Ezra .

The Guehinnom in rabbinic literature

The themes of a place sometimes real, sometimes symbolic, associated with Sheol, a place of atonement or eternal suffering, find themselves in the rabbinic oral tradition, written down in the Talmud and Midrash , but they are developed differently.

According to the Sages , Gehenna is before the world, and its fire was set on the second day of Creation. It has dimensions far beyond the world, and the Valley of Hinnom is only one input, another located in the desert, and a third into the sea Some say the name is also Guehinnom Sheol , Abadon, Well of Carnage Sheon Well, Tit Hayon, Tzalmavet and Underworld.

This is a place, described as an antechamber (or route of entry) for all souls (not only perverse). It is judged for his actions during life. God is not "absent" (as in the Christian hell), and they stay for a maximum period of twelve months, except rare exceptions like Elisha ben AVOUYI to be purified for the world to come olam haba , sometimes regarded as the paradise).
The Kabbalah also describes the soul in Gehenna, is "breaking" as the flame of a candle lights another: part of the soul is purified and "back" to the creator, the other returns to the world live to repair the errors committed previously.

The Hell in the New Testament

The is mentioned a dozen times in the New Testament , and is generally rendered by the word Hell ( Louis Segond , however, retains the name "Gehenna"), although in some instances, Jesus may refer to the Valley Hinnom itself.

Gehenna is commonly synonymous with torture, intense suffering. For others, such as Jehovah's Witnesses , it is the symbol of total destruction, complete.

The Ghennem in Islam

The Ghennem in Islam is synonymous with hell. It's a chaotic place where an eternal fire, temperature 70 times higher than the hottest flames of the Earth, burning the unbelievers for eternity. Disobedient Muslims (the "weight" of their sins is greater than their good deeds) will burn a certain time proportional to their disobedience to Allah , then leave the Ghennem for Paradise. This takes place during the Day of Judgement (the last day, day of the next world, the day of Qiyamah, the Day of Reckoning).

Fate of the Valley of Hinnom

Hinnom Valley today.

In ^the fourth century , Jerome Stridon Gue writes that the Hinnom is back, as he had once been a rather "pleasant", with plants and gardens.
In 1536 , Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent to dig a pond , since converted into an outdoor amphitheater.
The basin, as the valley is found from 1948 to 1967 in no man's land between Israel and Jordan. During the War of Independence of Israel , a cable member passes over the valley to connect the Mount Zion sunken in, providing supplies and evacuating the wounded, only at night. The cable remained functional throughout the watershed.

In 1981 , the Jerusalem Cinematheque was redeveloped near the Sultan's Pool.

It is also the eastern side of the valley that begins the road leading from the Jaffa Gate in Hebron. The north-western side of the Hinnom Valley is home to a public park.

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See also

Related articles

• Tophet , a place name near Jerusalem
• Valley of Hinnom
• The Inferno
• The Hades

Links and external documents

• Daily Bible Study page is the Valley of Hinnom
• Encyclopedia.com is Gehenna
• Columbia Encyclopedia On The Valley of Hinnom
• Biblical Proper Names On The Valley of Hinnom
• Gehenna From the 1901-1906 Jewish Encyclopedia
• The Jewish view of Hell is chabad.org
• A Christian Universalist perspective from Tentmaker.org

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• Portal of ancient Israel and Jews in Antiquity

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