Worlds that Could Not Be
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Worlds that Could Not Be

Utopia in Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah

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Worlds that Could Not Be

Utopia in Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah

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The idea of Utopia was first made current and popular by Sir Thomas More with the publication of his book by the same name in 1516. The 'no-place' that was created has had a fantastic reception history, which makes its application to the biblical books of Nehemiah, Ezra and Chronicles as vibrant as the current scholarship which is ongoing into the Renaissance term and its implications. The essays in this collection take different approaches to the question: are there proto-utopian elements in the three books from the Hebrew Bible? Methodological considerations are to be found, but each essay also moves beyond the methodological constraint to raise the hypothetical question of 'what if?' in different ways. The essays evaluate the potential, and pitfalls, of reading Biblical books as (proto-)utopian. Topics include how utopia construct intricate counter-realities, and how to tell whether a proposal diagnosed as 'utopian' from a modern point of view is meant to motivate its audience to political action. Case studies which read aspects of Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah as potential utopian traits include the restoration project of Ezra-Nehemiah and the rejection of foreign wives, utopian concerns in Chronicles, as well as the empire's role in writing a putative utopia, and King Solomon as a utopian fantasy-king.

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Publisher
T&T Clark
Year
2016
ISBN
9780567664044
Edition
1
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Biblical Studies

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Preface and Acknowledgments
  7. List of Contributors
  8. Abbreviations
  9. Introduction
  10. Part I: Testing Utopia as a Contemporary Method in Biblical Studies
  11. Part II: After Exile, Under Empire: Utopian Identity Negotiations in Ezraā€“Nehemiah and Chronicles
  12. Part III: Searching for the Place: Theologies of Utopia
  13. Index of References
  14. Index of Authors