Hell, the fiery eternal torment known from many Baptist pulpits, is maybe the ultimate consequence for misbehavior. But is it an afterlife that is present in the Bible? Today, Dr. Bart Ehrman joins me to discuss what Jesus believed about life after death, whether the idea of hell came from, and whether we can even find it in the Bible.

Welcome to misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman. The only show, where a six-time New York Times best-selling author and world-renowned Bible scholar, uncovers the many fascinating, little-known

facts about the New Testament,

the historical Jesus, and the rise of Christianity. I'm your host, Megan Lewis. Let's begin.

Welcome back everybody to misquoting Jesus, where today we're talking about hell and the afterlife.

We've also got our bonus

segment, which this week is misquoting Bart, where Bart will be responding to a misunderstanding

of his words. But before all of that, how are you doing this week? Yeah, I'm doing well. So I don't

think I've said this publicly yet, but I've changed what my next book is going to be.

Oh, that's exciting.

I mean, I'm still going to do the book on the canon, you know, how we got the 27 books of the canon.

But my publisher has urged me with some urgency that she would like to have a book on Jesus and capitalism. And so, you know, obviously not that

Jesus was a capitalist or a social, well, some people say, you know, people have written books

claiming Jesus was a capitalist, Jesus was a socialist, Jesus was whatever, but it'd be interesting

to have a biblical scholar who actually studied the historical Jesus to talk about those kinds of things. And so, yeah, so it looked like that's what, and so I've just started doing, and so it's great fun. I don't have to do much work on the Jesus side because like that stuff I know. But like, you know, I haven't read history of capitalism stuff since, wow, when, you know, you know, Das Kapita, Carl Martin, like, okay, college, baby.

So, so it's really, yeah, so it's kind of a fun moment.

But I'm definitely going to do the other thing, but I think I'm going to do this thing first.

That sounds like a fantastic project.

Yeah, so it's good.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay, so how are you doing right now?

Yes, good.

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