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Methods, Theories, Imagination - Social Scientific Approaches in Biblical Studies (Hardcover): David J. Chalcraft, Frauke... Methods, Theories, Imagination - Social Scientific Approaches in Biblical Studies (Hardcover)
David J. Chalcraft, Frauke Uhlenbruch, Rebecca S. Watson
R2,182 Discovery Miles 21 820 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Nowhere Bible - Utopia, Dystopia, Science Fiction (Hardcover, Digital original): Frauke Uhlenbruch The Nowhere Bible - Utopia, Dystopia, Science Fiction (Hardcover, Digital original)
Frauke Uhlenbruch
R4,215 Discovery Miles 42 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Bible contains passages that allow both scholars and believers to project their hopes and fears onto ever-changing empirical realities. By reading specific biblical passages as utopia and dystopia, this volume raises questions about reconstructing the past, the impact of wishful imagination on reality, and the hermeneutic implications of dealing with utopia - "good place" yet "no place" - as a method and a concept in biblical studies. A believer like William Bradford might approach a biblical passage as utopia by reading it as instructions for bringing about a significantly changed society in reality, even at the cost of becoming an oppressor. A contemporary biblical scholar might approach the same passage with the ambition of locating the historical reality behind it - finding the places it describes on a map, or arriving at a conclusion about the social reality experienced by a historical community of redactors. These utopian goals are projected onto a utopian text. This volume advocates an honest hermeneutical approach to the question of how reliably a past reality can be reconstructed from a biblical passage, and it aims to provide an example of disclosing - not obscuring - pre-suppositions brought to the text.

Worlds that Could Not Be - Utopia in Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah (Hardcover): Frauke Uhlenbruch, Steven J. Schweitzer Worlds that Could Not Be - Utopia in Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah (Hardcover)
Frauke Uhlenbruch, Steven J. Schweitzer
R4,579 Discovery Miles 45 790 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Worlds that Could Not Be - Utopia in Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah (Paperback): Frauke Uhlenbruch, Steven J. Schweitzer Worlds that Could Not Be - Utopia in Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah (Paperback)
Frauke Uhlenbruch, Steven J. Schweitzer
R1,453 Discovery Miles 14 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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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