This book helped me sort out the different views of heaven and hell as they pertain to Christianity (incl Jewish, Greek, and some Near Eastern cultures). Oftentimes growing up, questions, oddities, and apparent contradictions in the Bible were glossed over, ignored, or combined in some kind of mismatch frankenstein explanation of how things supposedly work after death. This book separates and clarifies those things. It is not perfect, but I learned a lot about the plurality of voices in the Bible.

As Rabbi Lawrence Kushner quipped: ask a room of 10 Jews a question and you'll get 13 different answers.

Food pairing: Norwegian crisp bread and chamomile if you believe in beating the body into submission; garlic bread with extra butter and red wine if you don't. lol.