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.
General
| Imprint: |
T. & T. Clark
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies |
| Release date: |
September 2018 |
| Editors: |
Frauke Uhlenbruch
• Steven J. Schweitzer
|
| Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
224 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-567-68456-1 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-567-68456-3 |
| Barcode: |
9780567684561 |
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