Worlds that could not be :  utopia in Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah /  [print] 
edited by Steven J. Schweitzer and Frauke Uhlenbruch. 
 - London ;  New York, New York :  Bloomsbury T and T Clark, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,  [(c)2016. 
 - xii, 211 pages ;  25 cm. 
 - Library of Hebrew Bible/ Old Testament Studies ;  620 T & T Clark library of biblical studies .
 - Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ;  620. T & T Clark library of biblical studies. .
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<br/><br/> Part I. Testing utopia as a contemporary method in biblical studies. Worlds that could not be: realism and irrealism in Thomas More's Utopia  "Utopia where it is to be hoped that the coffee is a little less sour"?: Dr Who's "Utopia" and Chronicles  World-building and temple-building: a game of utopian pastiche in 2 Chronicles 1-9  Part II. After exile, under empire: utopian identity negotiations in Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles  Exile, empire, and prophecy: reframing utopian concerns in Chronicles  Re-negotiating a putative utopia and the stories of the rejection of foreign wives in Ezra-Nehemiah  Writing and the Chronicler: authorship, ambivalence, and utopia  Utopia in agony: the role of prejudice in Ezra-Nehemiah's ideal for restoration  Part III. Searching for the place: theologies of Utopia. Taking the reader into utopia  Die Suche nach dem ort in der Chronik: eine u-topie? / Thomas Willi  Response  Terje Stordalen ;   Gerrie Snyman  Frauke Uhlenbruch  Steven J. Schweitzer  Ehud Ben Zvi  Donald Polaski  Jeremiah Cataldo  Matthias Jendrek  Vincent Geoghegan. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780567664050 0567664058 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2015040645 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Uniform Titles: </label><br/>Bible.--Chronicles--Criticism, interpretation, etc.<br/>Bible.--Ezra--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Utopias--Biblical teaching.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BS1345.52.W675 2016 BS1345.52.U31.W675 2016