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Scheduled to appear in 10 volumes, the scholarly edition of Cotton Mather's Biblia Americana (1693–1728) makes available for the first time the oldest comprehensive commentary on the Bible composed in British North America. Combining encyclopaedic discussions of biblical scholarship with scientific speculations and pietistic concerns, the Biblia represents one of the most significant untapped sources in American religious and intellectual history. Mather's commentary not only reflects the growing influence of Enlightenment thought (Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, and Newton) and the rise of the transatlantic evangelical awakening; it also marks the beginnings of historical criticism of the Bible as text in New England. The third volume of the Biblia Americana contains some 1250 of Mather's »illustrations,« as he called them, on the books of Joshua, Judges, Ruth, Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles. It follows volumes presenting Mather's extensive commentaries on Genesis (vol. 1) and on Exodus through Deuteronomy (vol. 2, will be published in 2016), both edited by Reiner Smolinski. These entries reveal Mather as a sacred historian, marshaling an array of approaches and disciplines to illuminate and defend the Scripture accounts. He revisits certain themes throughout such as idols and idolatry, parallels between the Hebrew Bible and the history and mythology of »pagan« cultures, and typological significations of events and characters. Other topics warranted sustained attention in a long entry or a series of entries, such as accounts of when the sun stood still, human sacrifice, as instanced in Jephthah's vow, the building, running, and destruction of Solomon's Temple, the nature of prophecy, the dispersion of the Israelites in captivity, and the timing of their eventual return.

222.2 --- 222.2 Genesis --- 222.2 La Genese --- Genesis --- La Genese --- 223.4 --- 224.3 --- 223.4 Boek der Spreuken --- 223.4 Les Proverbes --- Boek der Spreuken --- Les Proverbes --- 224.3 Jeremias. Lamentationes. Klaagliederen --- 224.3 Jeremie. Lamentations de Jeremie --- Jeremias. Lamentationes. Klaagliederen --- Jeremie. Lamentations de Jeremie --- 222.7 --- 222.5 --- 222.7 Chroniques. Esdras. Nehemie --- 222.7 Kronieken. Ezra. Nehemia --- Chroniques. Esdras. Nehemie --- Kronieken. Ezra. Nehemia --- 222.5 Jozua. Rechters. Ruth --- 222.5 Livre de Josue. Les Juges. Ruth --- Jozua. Rechters. Ruth --- Livre de Josue. Les Juges. Ruth

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An authoritative selection of the writings of one of the most important early American writers.

Puritans --- History. --- New England --- History

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Theology. --- Puritans --- Reformed Church --- Precisians --- Church polity --- Congregationalism --- Puritan movements --- Calvinism --- Christian theology --- Theology --- Theology, Christian --- Christianity --- Religion --- Doctrines.

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This collection of essays showcases the variety and complexity of early awakened Protestant biblical interpretation and practice while highlighting the many parallels, networks, and exchanges that connected the Pietist and evangelical traditions on both sides of the Atlantic.A yearning to obtain from the Word spiritual knowledge of God that was at once experiential and practical lay at the heart of the Pietist and evangelical quest for true religion, and it significantly shaped the courses and legacies of these movements. The myriad ways in which Pietists and evangelicals read, preached, translated, and practiced the Bible were inextricable from how they fashioned new forms of devotion, founded institutions, engaged the early Enlightenment, and made sense of their world. This volume provides breadth and texture to the role of Scripture in these related religious traditions. The contributors probe an assortment of primary source material from various confessional, linguistic, national, and regional traditions and feature well-known figures--including August Hermann Francke, Cotton Mather, and Jonathan Edwards--alongside lesser-known lay believers, women, people of color, and so-called radicals and separatists. Pioneering and collaborative, this volume contributes fresh insight into the history of the Bible and the entangled religious cultures of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.Along with the editors, the contributors to this volume include Ruth Albrecht, Robert E. Brown, Crawford Gribben, Bruce Hindmarsh, Kenneth P. Minkema, Adriaan C. Neele, Benjamin M. Pietrenka, Isabel Rivers, Douglas H. Shantz, Peter Vogt, and Marilyn J. Westerkamp.

Pietism --- Pietism --- Evangelicalism --- Evangelicalism --- History --- History --- History --- History --- Bible --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- History --- August Hermann Francke . --- Bible. --- Cotton Mather. --- Eighteenth century. --- Evangelicalism. --- George Whitefield. --- History of Biblical Interpretation. --- John Wesley. --- Jonathan Edwards. --- Moravianism. --- Pietism. --- Transatlantic.