The City of God by Augustine

Augustine was by no means the first Christian person to offer revisionist readings of the Hebrew Bible. Augustine reads the Old Testament not as a curious student of ancient Hebrew ideology, but as a Christian bent on interpreting every chapter and verse as foretelling his own coming. The third and final main thing that Augustine does in the second half of the city of God is to end the vast book with a long stretch of chapters about heaven and hell. Contrary to what many of us understand, heaven and hell are scarcely given a single verse in the Bible.