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1 online resource |
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Studies of the Bible and Its Reception (SBR) ; v. 4 |
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Studies of the Bible and Its Reception (SBR)
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| Contents |
Preface; Contents; 1 Fragmented Allusions; 2 Texts and Concepts; 2.1 Utopia, dystopia, science fiction; 2.2 Utopian thought, utopian and science fiction theory; 2.3 Social sciences and philosophy; 2.4 Bible; 2.5 Bible as utopia; 3 Utopia as an Ideal Type; 3.1 The problem with defining utopia, dystopia, and science fiction; 3.2 Ideals and ideal type; 3.3 Max Weber and beyond; 3.4 Family resemblances and anachronisms; 3.5 Using an ideal type to read utopia in the Bible; 3.6 The concept of utopia for use with the Bible; 3.7 Creation and disruption of links between fiction and reality |
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3.8 The impact of dating a utopia3.9 Features of literary utopias: fiction, history, place; 3.9.1 Realistic proposal or fiction; 3.9.2 Religion versus utopia; 3.9.3 The utopian pun; 4 Utopia and Reality; 4.1 "Zero Worlds"; 4.2 Relationship between the fiction and the author's reality; 4.2 Perceiving different utopias; 4.3 Can utopias be understood without the reality behind them?; 4.4 Reverse-engineering utopia; 4.4.1 Game rules; 4.4.2 The abstraction's independent meaning; 4.4.3 Retrograde analysis of utopia; 5 Numbers 13 and Its Reception Read as Utopia and Dystopia |
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5.1 Reality and utopia in William Bradford's reading of Numbers 135.1.1 Reading Numbers 13 as utopian blueprint; 5.1.2 Utopia into history: Cotton Mather reads Bradford and Numbers 13; 5.1.3 Estranged biblical utopia; 5.2 Reality or utopia in maps: Numbers, Ezekiel, and scholarly reception; 5.2.1 Functions of fictional maps; 5.2.2 Some biblical utopian maps; 5.2.3 The map of Numbers 13:17-26: A utopian map?; a All of the land or part of the land?; b Returning elsewhere? (vv. 25.26); c Difficult representation; d Paran or Kadesh; e Ṣin and Rĕḥōb, Lĕbōʼ-Ḥămāt; f Negeb and Ḥebrôn; g ʼEškōl |
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H The telescope effectI Elevated narrators; j Moving narrators; k Interviewing omniscient locals; l Moving protagonists, encounter with locals, and consequences of exploration in Numbers 13; 5.3 Ezekiel's utopian boundaries and Numbers' boundaries; 5.4 Implications; 6 Utopia and Dystopia; 6.1 Utopia, dystopia, anti-utopia; 6.1.1 Utopia; 6.1.2 Dystopia; 6.1.3 Anti-utopia; 6.1.4 Form criticism?; 6.2 Ambiguous utopian and dystopian images in Numbers 13; 6.2.1 Fortified cities: asset and threat; 6.2.2 Eating and being eaten; 6.2.3 Giants' grapes; 6.2.4 Escaping coercion |
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6.2.5 YHWH as utopian/dystopian leader6.3 Simultaneous utopia and dystopia; 6.3.1 Cyclical relationship of utopias and dystopias; 6.3.2 Simultaneous "Ustopia"; 6.3.3 Neutral spaces; 6.3.4 Utopian readers; 6.4 Excursus: Fantasy; 6.4.1 Elements of the fantastic; 6.4.2 World-building the Promised Land; 7 Science Fiction and the Bible; 7.1 The strange text; 7.2 Science fiction theory and the Bible; 7.2.1 Darko Suvin: the "novum"; 7.2.2 Raymond Williams: types of transformations; 7.2.3 Margaret Atwood: mythological questions; 7.2.4 Eric Rabkin: the narrative world |
| Summary |
This volume explores a biblical text as utopia - a "no-place". Reception historical case studies focus on the biblical passage Numbers 13. In Numbers 13 a place is described which has the singular capacity to reflect the fears and hopes of those who encounter it: Believers hope to find a promised land in reality; scholars hope to find a place on a map; a science fiction reader fears that we have to do with a potentially destructive alien message |
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Hebrew Bible |
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hermeneutics |
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science fiction |
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utopia |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Bible. Numbers, XIII -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
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| Subject |
Religion and geography.
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RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Old Testament.
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Religion and geography
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
3110414171 |
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9783110414172 |
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9783110414271 |
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3110414279 |
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