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== == To several religions, the place of peace and happiness is Paradise. The concept appears to have originated in the proto-Indo-Iranian culture (Mary Boyce, Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices), from which it was absorbed by the Hindu and Zoroastrian religions. It has been suggested that ideas of heaven and hell entered Judaism (and from there Christianity and Islam) from Zoroastrianism. Prior to contact with the Persians in the sixth century BCE, there is no evidence that the Jewish people believed in heaven as we now understand it. There are Old Testament references only to an afterlife state called 'sheol'.

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