Evergreen48
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You forgot to give the source for this info, so I will give it for you. It can be found word for word under the heading of "Tophet, in the Wickipedia.
David Kimhi (Hebrew: דוד קמחי‎, also Kimchi or Qimḥi) (11601235), also known by the Hebrew acronym as the RaDaK (רד"ק
, was a medieval rabbi, biblical commentator, philosopher, and grammarian.Kimhi was born in Narbonne, Provence, the youngest son of Rabbi Joseph Kimhi and the brother of Rabbi Moses Kimhi, both biblical commentators and grammarians. His father died while David was still as a child, and Kimhi was raised by his brother Moses.[1]
Later, he supported himself by teaching Talmud to the young. He was well versed in the whole range of Hebrew literature, and became the most illustrious representative of his name. Works of the Kimhi family were underwritten by the Ibn Yahya family of Lisbon, Portugal.[2]
Scholarship
David Kimhi saw himself primarily as a compiler and summarizer. As a noted Hebrew grammarian, his book Michlol (מכלול
and his dictionary of the Hebrew language called Sefer Hashorashim (Book of Roots) (ספר השורשים draws heavily on the earlier works of Rabbi Judah ben David Hayyuj and Rabbi Jonah ibn Janah, as well as from the work of his father. These two books were originally written as one, though over the years, they have come to be printed separately. This book, while based on his predecessors, shows a significant amount of innovation, stakes out new territory in his scholarly fields, and from a methodological point of view is superior to what came before. For example, in Michlol, Kimhi expounds on his predecessors' opinions in a clear, straightforward way with a comprehensive approach to the Hebrew structure. Sefer Hashorashim highlights his talent as a writer because of its logical organization, particularly the way he bases his definitions upon 1) etymology and 2) comparisons between languages. Another of Ḳimḥi's works, "'Eṭ Sofer," was a sort of abridged version of Michlol and acted as a manual for biblical scribes. This was a necessary compilation of rules for the writing of Bible-rolls, Masoretic notes, and accents, due to widespread ignoracnce among the scribes of the 12th century. ~Wickipedia ~Hermann Leberecht Strack (18481922) was a German Protestant theologian and Orientalist; born at Berlin May 6, 1848. Since 1877 he was assistant professor of Old Testament exegesis and Semitic languages at the University of Berlin. He was the foremost Christian authority in Germany on Talmudic and rabbinic literature, and studied rabbinics under Steinschneider. Since the reappearance of anti-Semitism in Germany, Strack had been the champion of the Jews against the attacks of such men as Hofprediger Adolf Stoecker, Professor August Rohling, and others. In 1885 Strack became the editor of Nathanael. Zeitschrift für die Arbeit der Evangelischen Kirche an Israel, published at Berlin; and in 1883 he founded the Institutum Judaicum, which aims at the conversion of Jews to Christianity. In the beginning of his career the Prussian government sent Strack to St. Petersburg to examine the Bible manuscripts there; on this occasion he examined also the antiquities of the Firkovich collection, which he declared to be forgeries. This claim was found to be untrue: the Firkovich collection is closely related to Cairo Geniza material found by Solomon Schechter. ~ Wickipedia ~
Paul Billerbeck (18531932) was a Lutheran minister and scholar of Judaism, best known for his Commentary on the New Testament from the Talmud and Midrash (German, 1926) co-written with Hermann Strack. Billerbeck was born in Prussia to Jewish parents and educated in Greifswald and Leipzig.[1][2][3] Billerbeck's participation in Strack's Commentary on the New Testament from the Talmud and Midrash commenced in 1906 when Strack encouraged Billerbeck to compile and expand the material of John Lightfoot, Christian Schoettgen (1733) and Johann Jacob Wetstein for a new German commentary on the New Testament using rabbinical literature.[4] ~ Wickipedia ~
So how is it that these two men's (Billerbeck and Strack) work take precedence over Kimchi's work?
I did not say anything about sheol. I said that Gehenna and Hades are two different places, and there is absolutely nothing in your Jewish Encyclopedia quote that says otherwise. In the OT, sheol is simply the grave, and sometimes all the graves of the departed are collectively spoken of as being sheol.
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Don't you read verse18? 
