The story in Paradise Lost is of the War Between Heaven and Hell; and what we see condensed on stage are God creating the Universe and Earth, Adam and Eve, Satan falling from Heaven to Hell as he ...

“Most of our ideas about Hell and the Devil come from later works,” she says, offering Milton’s Paradise Lost and Dante’s Inferno as obvious examples. “Many times works outside the Bible ...

The evolution of Hell was complex—from Hebrew Sheol’s shadowy stillness to Dante’s fiery abyss, which shaped Western views of ...

The hell of the Bible isn't quite the same as our modern idea of a fiery afterlife, but there are still enough creepy piles of bones and imprisoned souls to keep you up at night. Researchers Study ...