Worlds that Could Not Be

Steven J. Schweitzer is Academic Dean and Associate Professor at Bethany Theological Seminary, USA.Frauke Uhlenbruch is Editor of the project 'Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception' at De Gruyter's publishing house.

• IntroductionTesting utopia as a contemporary method in biblical studies "Worlds that could not be: Is Thomas More's Utopia modern?" Terje Stordalen, University of Oslo, Norway"'Utopia where it is to be hoped that the coffee is a little less sour'?: Dr Who's 'Utopia' and Chronicles" Gerrie Snyman, University of South Africa, South Africa"King Solomon or King Utopus?: A game of utopian pastiche in 2 Chronicles 1-9"Frauke Uhlenbruch, independent scholarAfter exile, under empire: utopian identity negotiations in Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles"Exile, empire, and prophecy: reframing utopian concerns in Chronicles" Steven J. Schweitzer, Bethany Theological Seminary, USA"Writing and the Chronicler: authorship, ambivalence, and utopia"Donald Polaski, Randolph-Macon College, USA"Re-negotiating a putative utopia and the stories of the rejection of foreign wives in Ezra-Nehemiah" Ehud Ben Zvi, University of Alberta, Canada"Antagonized utopia in Ezra-Nehemiah"Jeremiah Cataldo, Grand Valley State University, USASearching for the place: theologies of utopia"Taking the reader into utopia" Matthias Jendrek, Theological Faculty Paderborn, Germany"Searching the 'place' in Chronicles: a u-topia?"Thomas Willi, University Greifswald, GermanyResponse: Utopia and its use by Biblical Scholars as seen by a utopian scholarVincent Geoghegan, Queens University Belfast, UKBibliographyIndex

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