I think i am going to have to wrap up my Hellology project for the time being.
My impression as a total non-expert is that abhidhamma can’t be reliably dated relative to hell-texts of other religions :(
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It’s very roughly in that same range of “within a couple centuries of the putative birth of Christ”
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The Apocalypse of Peter might turn out to be the Earliest attested Hell or perhaps Buddho-taoist stuff from China
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I am getting that impression. I was hoping that i would find translations into Chinese
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