Worlds That Could Not Be Utopia in Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah
- New York T and T Clark 2018
- 211p
- Library of Hebrew Bible/ Old Testament Studies; 201800ENGGPS6 .
includes index and biblioraphy
1. Testing utopia as a Contemporary Method in Biblical Studies World that could not be: Ralism and irrealism in Thomas more`s Utopia .......13 Utopia where it is to be hoped that the coffee is a little less sour ....................................38 World -building and temple- building : A game of Utopian pastiche in 2 Chronicles 1-9...........59 2. After Exile, Under Empire: Utopian identity negotiations in Ezra- Nehemiah and chronicles Exile, empire, and Prophecy: Reframing utopian Concerns in Chronicles ..............81 Re-negotiating a putative utopia and the stories of the rejection of foreign wives in Ezra - Nehemiah ............105 Writing and the chronicler: Authorship ambivalence and utopia ................129 Utopian in Agony : the role of Prejudice in Ezra-nehamia`s Ideal for Restoration ............144 3. Searching for the place: Theologies of utopia Taking the reader into utopia .............171
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Chronicles I Ezra Nehemiah Criticism, Interpretation