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In Hell and Its Rivals, Alan E. Bernstein examines an array of sources from within and beyond the three Abrahamic faiths—including theology, chronicles, legal charters, edifying tales, and narratives of near-death experiences—to analyze the origins and evolution of belief in Hell.
Alan E. Bernstein is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the University of Arizona. He is the author of Hell and Its Rivals: Death and Retribution among Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Early Middle Ages and The Formation of Hell: Death and Retribution in the Ancient and Early Christian Worlds, both from Cornell.
"Alan E. Bernstein continues his fine work onHell with extraordinary success. Bernstein understands Hell through both the history of concepts and of social history, interpreting the monotheistic ideas of Hell in theology and in popular thought."
Philip C. Almond, University of Queensland, author of Afterlife: A History of Life after Death:
"Erudite and readable, Hell and Its Rivals is the crucial resource for those interested in the formation of the doctrine of Hell over late antiquity and the early medieval period. Alan E. Bernstein has a remarkable knowledge of the relevant textual history of the period and of the details of the texts with which he deals."
Carol Zaleski, Smith College, author of Otherworld Journeys: Accounts of Near-Death Experience in Medieval and Modern Times :
"With The Formation of Hell, Alan E. Bernstein established his reputation as a sophisticated historian of Hell. He is an authority I regularly turn to for questions about Hell, its sources, and its implications for society, piety, and culture. The appearance of Hell and Its Rivals, extending the time frame into the early and high Middle Ages, and encompassing Patristic, Byzantine, Rabbinic, and Islamic sources, is a welcome event."
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