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Originally posted by Fibrosa
I could have sworn I read somewhere that the ancient hebrews did not believe in a heaven per say; they believed in shoel, which is similar to our concept of pergatory, although there was no 'higher' plane.
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Close...Sheol simply was nothingness...a non-conscious non-existance. Beleif in a resurrection of the body, and or heaven does not enter until circa 200 BCE.