different bits of abhidhamma were probably written at quite different dates, which makes it that much harder.
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Replying to @Meaningness @jaspergregory
Most sane scholars believe that abhidhamma is quite a bit later than the other two pitakas, for whatever that’s worth
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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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How are you defining hell? Various Mediterranean religions had similar things much earlier? http://www.hell-on-line.org/TextsEGY.html
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Avestas have a reference or two, the vedas have a reference or two, but they are not developed into a Salvic Model
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(from an old draft blog post, titled “Selling Salvation,” that has not yet surfaced:)pic.twitter.com/4drPHGYL2n
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and every other fear factory for ~2000 years
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I am definitely struck by the parallels of Buddhism and Christianity in their Afterlife and Divine Punishment mythologies
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There’s a ton of commonalities between those two religions that couldn’t possibly be coincidence…
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