maintained that in this loathsome valley fires were kept burning perpetually to consume the filth and cadavers thrown into it. Beasley-Murray, and Lloyd Bailey in tracing the origin of this notion to Rabbi David Kimchi in AD 1200. I’ve always thought that this was an established fact. Almost every major commentary on Matthew that mentions Gehenna also spoke of the garbage dump. I consulted over a dozen study Bibles on Matthew 5:22 and no less than eight of them made a reference to the rubbish heap. Yesterday Louis McBride raised the issue (HT: BibleX). There simply is no evidence to support the idea, but because it seems a reasonable explanation for the origin of the Hinnom Valley as “hell,” writers and preachers accept and propagate the story. ![]() I have long wanted to do a little work to debunk the endlessly repeated myth that the Hinnom Valley (Gehenna) was a perpetually burning trash dump.
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