Heaven and Hell - Bart D. Ehrman

Heaven and Hell

A History of the Afterlife

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Buch | Hardcover
352 Seiten
2020
Oneworld Publications (Verlag)
978-1-78607-720-2 (ISBN)
24,90 inkl. MwSt
The bestselling historian of early Christianity takes on two of the most gripping questions of human existence – where did the ideas of heaven and hell come from, and why do they endure?
Where did the ideas of heaven and hell come from?



As strange as it may seem to us now, there was a time when no one thought they would go to heaven or hell after they died. In fact, there is no mention of them in the Old Testament, and Jesus did not believe the souls of the departed were bound for either realm.



In this gripping history of the afterlife, Bart Ehrman reveals how the concepts of heaven and hell developed and took hold, and why they endure to this day. He examines the social, cultural and historical roots of competing views held by Greeks, Jews and Christians, and traces how beliefs changed over time. Ultimately, he shows that many of our ideas about heaven and hell emerged long after Jesus’s time, through the struggle to explain the injustices of the world.

Bart D. Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the New York Times bestselling author of Misquoting Jesus and How Jesus Became God. He has contributed to such major publications and media outlets as Time, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, NBC, CNN and the BBC.

Acknowledgments



Preface



 



Chapter One: Guided Tours of Heaven and Hell



Chapter Two: The Fear of Death



Chapter Three: Life After Death Before There Was Life After Death



Chapter Four: Will Justice Be Done? The Rise of Postmortem Rewards and Punishments



Chapter Five: Death After Death in the Hebrew Bible



Chapter Six: Dead Bodies That Return to Life: The Resurrection in Ancient Israel



Chapter Seven: Why Wait for the Resurrection? Life After Death Right After Death



Chapter Eight: Jesus and the Afterlife



Chapter Nine: The Afterlife After Jesus’s Life: Paul the Apostle



Chapter Ten: Altering the Views of Jesus: The Later Gospels



Chapter Eleven: The Afterlife Mysteries of the Book of Revelation



Chapter Twelve: Eternal Life in the Flesh



Chapter Thirteen: Tactile Ecstasy and Torment in the Christian Hereafter



Chapter Fourteen: Who Will Inherit the Blessings? Purgatory, Reincarnation, and Salvation for All



 



Afterword



Notes



Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 153 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie Esoterik / Spiritualität
Religion / Theologie Christentum Kirchengeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10 1-78607-720-5 / 1786077205
ISBN-13 978-1-78607-720-2 / 9781786077202
Zustand Neuware
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