Proverbs – Jeremiah

Biblia Americana. America's First Bible Commentary. A Synoptic Commentary on the Old and New Testaments. Volume 5

Edited by Jan Stievermann By (author) Cotton Mather Edited by Paul Silas Peterson Edited by Michael Dopffel Edited by Helen K. Gelinas Edited by Angelika Nemec

Book cover: Proverbs – Jeremiah

Extent: 1119 pages

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Subjects: American Studies, Biblical Studies

Series: Biblia Americana

Series volume number: 5

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(January 2016)

ISBN: 9783161542664

6.73 x 9.61 inches

Price: $299.00

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Cotton Mather’s commentaries on Proverbs to Jeremiah are a treasure-trove for scholars interested in the development of Reformed theology and biblical interpretation during the early Enlightenment. Mather engages with issues of translation and questions about authorship, provenance, and genre, especially with regard to the three books ascribed to King Solomon. In turn, the annotations on Isaiah and Jeremiah are crucially concerned with the relevance of the Hebrew prophets for the claims of Christian theology. The volume shows the struggle of exegetes in Mather’s generation to adjust traditional interpretations of the Old Testament to a growing awareness of the Scriptures’ historicity. Many of the entries also reveal a new “Baconian” concern with demonstrating the factual realism of the Bible by recourse to empirical evidence and the natural sciences.

  • Edited by Jan Stievermann
  • By (author) Cotton Mather
  • Edited by Paul Silas Peterson
  • Edited by Michael Dopffel
  • Edited by Helen K. Gelinas
  • Edited by Angelika Nemec