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Heaven and Hell

A History of the Afterlife

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Heaven and Hell

Von: Bart D. Ehrman, Bart D. Ehrman - preface
Gesprochen von: John Bedford Lloyd
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 A New York Times 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?

What happens when we die? A recent Pew Research poll showed that 72% of Americans believe in a literal heaven and 58% believe in a literal hell. Most people who hold these beliefs are Christian and assume they are the age-old teachings of the Bible. But eternal rewards and punishments are found nowhere in the Old Testament and are not what Jesus or his disciples taught.

So where did these ideas come from?

In this “eloquent understanding of how death is viewed through many spiritual traditions” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), Bart Ehrman recounts the long history of the afterlife, ranging from The Epic of Gilgamesh up to the writings of Augustine, focusing especially on the teachings of Jesus and his early followers. He discusses ancient guided tours of heaven and hell, in which a living person observes the sublime blessings of heaven for those who are saved and the horrifying torments of hell for those who are damned. Some of these accounts take the form of near death experiences, the oldest on record, with intriguing similarities to those reported today.

One of Ehrman’s startling conclusions is that there never was a single Greek, Jewish, or Christian understanding of the afterlife, but numerous competing views. Moreover, these views did not come from nowhere; they were intimately connected with the social, cultural, and historical worlds out of which they emerged. Only later, in the early Christian centuries, did they develop into notions of eternal bliss or damnation widely accepted today.

In this “elegant history” (The New Yorker), Ehrman helps us reflect on where our ideas of the afterlife come from. With his “richly layered narrative” (The Boston Globe) he assures us that even if there may be something to hope for when we die, there certainly is nothing to fear. Christentum Religiöse Studien Spiritualität

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I liked this one much more than Mr Ehrman's book about Brown's Da Vinci Code. Some of his personal convictions strike me as quite self-contradictory but he did a good job in keeping these out of focus. I only wish the book dealt with a wider horizon, not relying so heavily on the Judeo-Christian tradition, but a cobbler should stick to his last and I thus understand why he narrowed the span down so much - probably for the better.

Good work but very Judeo-Christian focussed

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The book is a very detailed description of the ideas of the afterlife from pagan times to the medival era. It focuses mostly on Prof. Ehrman's speciality, the early Christianity. It is compelling listening. However, Prof. Ehrman's lectures on the Great Courses series show his warm humor and genuine enthusiasm for his subject. This is mostly lost in this reading

very detailed

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To start with: If you look for certainties you will not find any in this book. No afterlife, afterlive only for a chosen few, afterlive for the good, afterlive for the faithful, non-existence for the sinful, eternal torture for the sinful: All this and more was and is believed. So make your choice.
Regardless if you are religious or not, the stories contained in this book are brethtaking. And the reader J. B. Lloyd is one of the best I have ever listen to!

A history and a personal account

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The author’s work, as always, is astonishing in its scope and depth. I can’t wait to get my hands on his next one. The narrator, however, must have been partially absent when the vowels were handed out. It was near painful to listen to him read ‘gaad’ and ‘resurrectiaan of the baady’ and all other occasions that asked for an ‘o’.

An audiobook without the vowel ‘O’

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