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Worlds That Could Not Be : Utopia in Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament StudiesPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (226 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780567664044
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Worlds That Could Not BeDDC classification:
  • 222.606
LOC classification:
  • BS1345.2 .W675 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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