Worlds that could not be: Utopia in Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah
CONTENTS -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION -- Frauke Uhlenbruch -- 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 -- "U...
| Résumé: | CONTENTS -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION -- Frauke Uhlenbruch -- 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 -- Index of References -- Index of Authors |
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| Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| ISBN: | 056766404X |