Outside the Camp

A cou­ple of months ago I pur­chased Heaven: A His­tory by Colleen McDan­nell. It traces human con­cep­tions of the after life from the early Jew­ish views to that of the early Chris­tians and then pro­gresses through the years down to the mod­ern era. I pur­chased it as a ref­er­ence because …