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Worlds that could not be : utopia in Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah / edited by Steven J. Schweitzer and Frauke Uhlenbruch.
Van Pelt Library BS1345.52 .W67 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 620.
- T & T Clark library of biblical studies
- Library of Hebrew Bible/ Old Testament Studies ; 620
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Chronicles--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible. Ezra--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible. Nehemiah--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible. Nehemiah.
- Bible. Ezra.
- Bible. Chronicles.
- Utopias--Biblical teaching.
- Utopias.
- Biblical teaching.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 211 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury T&T Clark, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Worlds that could not be
- ISBN:
- 9780567664051
- 0567664058
- OCLC:
- 926105990
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