@michaelgemar @TerryHancock @futurebird Kinda but not really. Jewish scripture, including the psalms which are about as old as anything, talks about Sheol and "the pit" which are both places of forgotten aloneness. The three Greek words in the NT that get translated to English as "hell" in the KJV all have precursors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell#Christianity And a tormented (though possibly not as intentionally so as hell) afterlife was quite common in non-Jewish antiquity, what with Hades and Annubis's lands of the dead. While Jesus definitely mentions it (I think the count is like 12-13 times across four gospels, I think), the kind of gory expositions of specific horrific torments forever mostly come from the fan fics like Dante and Milton.