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Biblia Americana - America's First Bible Commentary. A Synoptic Commentary on the Old and New Testaments. Volume 3: Joshua - 2 Chronicles (Hardcover)
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Biblia Americana - America's First Bible Commentary. A Synoptic Commentary on the Old and New Testaments. Volume 3: Joshua - 2 Chronicles (Hardcover)
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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.
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