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> No single author has defined how America speaks and writes the way Dante did for Italian

No English language version of the Bible - prior to the King James Version - contained descriptions of Hell. At best, modern American conceptions/beliefs about Hell is fan-fiction based on Dante's Inferno.

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Gehenna was well-known in the oral tradition of Jews and Muslims long before the 1600s. The whole "lake of fire" thing appears in the Book of Revelation, is very unambiguously referred to as such in the Greek text, and that's what most conceptions of hell come from. Dante's Inferno is literally frozen over at the bottom, which is not the standard Biblical version of Hell most people think of.

Sheol got turned into Hades, then Christianity mashed it together with Gehenna to create "Hell".

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