Beyond Hell
Does Gehenna Mean “Hell?”
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Does Gehenna really mean “hell”?In this episode of Beyond Hell, we take a deep dive into the Greek word Gehenna and ask how Greek-speaking Jewish readers would have understood the Valley of Hinnom before the time of Jesus.When the Hebrew Bible was translated into Greek in the Septuagint (LXX), the translators did not always simply transliterate “Valley of Hinnom.” In Jeremiah 19, the Greek…