The nowhere Bible

The nowhere Bible: utopia, dystopia, science

by Uhlenbruch, Frauke

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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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  • Full title :The nowhere Bible : utopia, dystopia, science / Frauke Uhlenbruch.

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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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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2015

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):De Gruyter
  • Place of Publication:Berlin
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2015

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:3110414171, 9783110414172, 9783110414271, 3110414279
  • oclc:ocn908632850
  • LC Classification:BS1265.52
  • Dewey Decimal:222/.1406

Table of 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.

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.

5.1 Reality and utopia in Willia…

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Subjects

Bible. Numbers, XIII Criticism, interpretation, etc RELIGION -- Biblical Studies Religion and geography Religion et géographie

Writers

Uhlenbruch, Frauke

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