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Worlds that could not be : utopia in Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah / edited by Steven J. Schweitzer and Frauke Uhlenbruch.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 620. | T & T Clark library of biblical studiesDescription: xii, 211 pages ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780567664051
  • 0567664058
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Worlds that could not be.DDC classification:
  • 222.6 S413W 23
LOC classification:
  • BS1345.52 .W67 2016
Contents:
Part I. Testing utopia as a contemporary method in biblical studies. Worlds that could not be: realism and irrealism in Thomas More's Utopia / Terje Stordalen -- "Utopia where it is to be hoped that the coffee is a little less sour"?: Dr Who's "Utopia" and Chronicles / Gerrie Snyman -- World-building and temple-building: a game of utopian pastiche in 2 Chronicles 1-9 / Frauke Uhlenbruch -- Part II. After exile, under empire: utopian identity negotiations in Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles -- Exile, empire, and prophecy: reframing utopian concerns in Chronicles / Steven J. Schweitzer -- Re-negotiating a putative utopia and the stories of the rejection of foreign wives in Ezra-Nehemiah / Ehud Ben Zvi -- Writing and the Chronicler: authorship, ambivalence, and utopia / Donald Polaski -- Utopia in agony: the role of prejudice in Ezra-Nehemiah's ideal for restoration / Jeremiah Cataldo -- Part III. Searching for the place: theologies of Utopia. Taking the reader into utopia / Matthias Jendrek -- Die Suche nach dem ort in der Chronik: eine u-topie? / Thomas Willi -- Response / Vincent Geoghegan.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Part I. Testing utopia as a contemporary method in biblical studies. Worlds that could not be: realism and irrealism in Thomas More's Utopia / Terje Stordalen -- "Utopia where it is to be hoped that the coffee is a little less sour"?: Dr Who's "Utopia" and Chronicles / Gerrie Snyman -- World-building and temple-building: a game of utopian pastiche in 2 Chronicles 1-9 / Frauke Uhlenbruch -- Part II. After exile, under empire: utopian identity negotiations in Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles -- Exile, empire, and prophecy: reframing utopian concerns in Chronicles / Steven J. Schweitzer -- Re-negotiating a putative utopia and the stories of the rejection of foreign wives in Ezra-Nehemiah / Ehud Ben Zvi -- Writing and the Chronicler: authorship, ambivalence, and utopia / Donald Polaski -- Utopia in agony: the role of prejudice in Ezra-Nehemiah's ideal for restoration / Jeremiah Cataldo -- Part III. Searching for the place: theologies of Utopia. Taking the reader into utopia / Matthias Jendrek -- Die Suche nach dem ort in der Chronik: eine u-topie? / Thomas Willi -- Response / Vincent Geoghegan.

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