Worlds That Could Not Be : Utopia in Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah.
Uhlenbruch, Frauke.
Worlds That Could Not Be : Utopia in Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (226 pages) - The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies ; v.620 . - The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies .
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 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? -- Response -- Index of References -- Index of Authors.
9780567664044
Bible.-Chronicles-Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
BS1345.2 .W675 2018
222.606
Worlds That Could Not Be : Utopia in Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (226 pages) - The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies ; v.620 . - The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies .
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 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? -- Response -- Index of References -- Index of Authors.
9780567664044
Bible.-Chronicles-Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
BS1345.2 .W675 2018
222.606