03545nam 2200685 450 991081769980332120230807214356.03-11-041417-13-11-041427-910.1515/9783110414172(CKB)3710000000393045(EBL)1880395(SSID)ssj0001457565(PQKBManifestationID)11967533(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001457565(PQKBWorkID)11441907(PQKB)10932078(DE-B1597)448798(OCoLC)979589811(DE-B1597)9783110414172(MiAaPQ)EBC1880395(Au-PeEL)EBL1880395(CaPaEBR)ebr11049530(CaONFJC)MIL807876(OCoLC)908632850(EXLCZ)99371000000039304520150226h20152015 uy| 0engur|nu---|u||utxtccrThe nowhere Bible utopia, dystopia, science /Frauke UhlenbruchBerlin ;Munich ;Boston :De Gruyter,[2015]©20151 online resource (220 p.)Studies of the bible and its reception,2195-450X ;volume 4Description based upon print version of record.3-11-041418-X 3-11-041154-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Preface --Contents --1 Fragmented Allusions --2 Texts and Concepts --3 Utopia as an Ideal Type --4 Utopia and Reality --5 Numbers 13 and Its Reception Read as Utopia and Dystopia --6 Utopia and Dystopia --7 Science Fiction and the Bible --8 Afterthoughts --Bibliography --IndexThe 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.Studies of the Bible and its reception ;v. 4.Religion and geographyHebrew Bible.hermeneutics.science fiction.utopia.Religion and geography.222/.1406BC 6220rvkUhlenbruch Frauke1652967MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910817699803321The nowhere Bible4003955UNINA