Your understanding fits perfectly well with more contemporary Catholic doctrine, I think ("more contemporary" meaning "before Vatican II").
The thing is, Dante's Divine Comedy doesn't have post-Biblical Jews, except for Caiaphas and Annas, the priestly enemies of Jesus, who wind up with the hypocrites in the eighth circle (and, judging from the conventions of medieval iconography, one might also count Judas Iscariot in the ninth). They're deep in Hell for reasons not necessarily related to Judaism. However, there are Muslims in Limbo -- Saladin, Avicenna, and Averroes (and Saladin, at least, was known to have had extensive contact with Christians during the Third Crusade!) -- so one can guess that "virtuous" contemporary Jews would've been in the same place.
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Date: 2003-04-30 07:44 pm (UTC)The thing is, Dante's Divine Comedy doesn't have post-Biblical Jews, except for Caiaphas and Annas, the priestly enemies of Jesus, who wind up with the hypocrites in the eighth circle (and, judging from the conventions of medieval iconography, one might also count Judas Iscariot in the ninth). They're deep in Hell for reasons not necessarily related to Judaism. However, there are Muslims in Limbo -- Saladin, Avicenna, and Averroes (and Saladin, at least, was known to have had extensive contact with Christians during the Third Crusade!) -- so one can guess that "virtuous" contemporary Jews would've been in the same place.