Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife

by Bart D. Ehrman

EPUB, 2020

Original publication date

2020-03-31

Publication

Simon & Schuster (2020), Edition: Reprint, 346 pages

Notes

CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Preface
1: Guided Tours of Heaven and Hell
2: The Fear of Death
3: Life After Death Before There Was Life After Death
4: Will Justice Be Done? The Rise of Postmortem Rewards and Punishments
5: Death After Death in the Hebrew Bible
6: Dead Bodies That Return to Life: The Resurrection in Ancient Israel
7: Why Wait for the Resurrection? Life After Death Right After Death
8: Jesus and the Afterlife
9: The Afterlife After Jesus’s Life: Paul the Apostle
10: Altering the Views of Jesus: The Later Gospels
11: The Afterlife Mysteries of the Book of Revelation
12: Eternal Life in the Flesh
13: Tactile Ecstasy and Torment in the Christian Hereafter
14: Who Will Inherit the Blessings?Purgatory, Reincarnation, and Salvation for All
Afterword
Notes
Index
Page: 0.18 seconds