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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 620. | T & T Clark library of biblical studiesPublication details: London ; New York, New York : Bloomsbury T and T Clark, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, (c)2016.Description: xii, 211 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780567664050
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BS1345.U31.W675 2016
  • BS1345
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Contents:
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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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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