Theodicy: not in this life or this world
Places of reward and punishment: heaven and hell
Purgatory — everything bad about us is burned away before we can enter God’s presence
Body and soul — what am I if not my body?
Resurrection of the body at final judgment
Intermediate state — what happens between death and final judgment
Fate of the world
When? Calculations and delays
Is the Kingdom of God already or not yet?
Social context: rebuilding Jerusalem, Jewish identity
Radical hopes for New Jerusalem, New Heavens, New Earth
Who are God’s enemies? Jewish leaders
Who are God’s people? All nations
End of the world
No afterlife
Social context: persecution and civil war
End of the world (as we know it)
Afterlife
Apocalypse
Theodicy
Influence on Christianity