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Word: yahwist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...describes the virtually inexhaustible variety of answers that man has proposed to the question of what follows death. Islam preached an afterlife of sensual pleasure for the true believer; some Hellenic religions gloomily warned of a dark, shadowy Hades. The Sumerian faith of ancient Babylon and the primitive Yahwist faith of Israel also preached an afterlife of agony rather than ecstasy-which was still apparently preferable to believing that death was merely obliteration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Rise & Fall of Heaven | 9/7/1962 | See Source »

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