Dr. Steven Schweitzer

Reading Utopia in Chronicles

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An examination which employs a literary approach in an attempt to address the coherence of "Chronicles" as a whole. This book examines three major concerns of the "Chronicles" - commonly discussed by scholars (genealogy, politics, and the temple cult) - through the lens of utopian literary theory.

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Produktdetails

• The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9780567027924
• ISBN-10: 0567027929
• Artikelnr.: 22510373

Autorenporträt

Steven Schweitzer

Inhaltsangabe

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1 The Current State of Chronicles Scholarship
1.1.1 Authorship of Chronicles 1.1.2 Date of Chronicles 1.1.3 Genre of
Chronicles 1.1.4 Three Major Themes in Chronicles 1.1.4.1 Genealogies
1.1.4.2 Politics 1.1.4.3 Temple Cult 1.1.5 The Present Situation and a New
Approach to Chronicles 1.2 A New Methodology: Utopian Literary Theory 1.2.1
Definition of Utopianism 1.2.2 The Methodology of Utopian Literary Theory
Excursus: St. Thomas More's Utopia 1.2.3 Utopianism and its Literary Form
in the Ancient World 1.2.4 Utopianism in Chronicles CHAPTER 2: A
GENEALOGICAL UTOPIA 2.1 The Genealogies: Brief Comments on Purposes and
Forms 2.1.1 Purposes of Genealogies 2.1.2 Forms of Genealogies: The
Function of 1 Chronicles 1-9 as a Literary Preface 2.2 The Genealogical
Identity of "Israel" in Chronicles: Genealogy as Utopia Excursus: Prophecy,
Speeches, and Authority in Chronicles 2.2.1 Constructing a Lineage:
Examples of the Chronicler's Utopian Use of Sources 2.2.2 The "Twelve
Tribes" of Utopian Israel: Identifying "Israel" 2.2.3 Judah and Levi in
Privileged Positions