Heaven and Hell

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.

• AcknowledgmentsPreface  Chapter One: Guided Tours of Heaven and HellChapter Two: The Fear of DeathChapter Three: Life After Death Before There Was Life After DeathChapter Four: Will Justice Be Done? The Rise of Postmortem Rewards and PunishmentsChapter Five: Death After Death in the Hebrew BibleChapter Six: Dead Bodies That Return to Life: The Resurrection in Ancient IsraelChapter Seven: Why Wait for the Resurrection? Life After Death Right After DeathChapter Eight: Jesus and the AfterlifeChapter Nine: The Afterlife After Jesus’s Life: Paul the ApostleChapter Ten: Altering the Views of Jesus: The Later GospelsChapter Eleven: The Afterlife Mysteries of the Book of RevelationChapter Twelve: Eternal Life in the FleshChapter Thirteen: Tactile Ecstasy and Torment in the Christian HereafterChapter Fourteen: Who Will Inherit the Blessings? Purgatory, Reincarnation, and Salvation for All AfterwordNotesIndex

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