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Biblia Americana: America’s First Bible Commentary. A Synoptic Commentary on the Old and New Testaments. Volume 5: Proverbs-Jeremiah

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This volume of the Biblia Americana accommodates Cotton Mather’s annotations at the books of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Canticles, Jeremiah, and Isaiah. A mix of historical-textual criticism and pious explications, the commentaries are a treasure-trove for scholars interested within the development of Reformed theology and biblical interpretation throughout a decisive period of intellectual change within the early up to date Atlantic world. Mather, an apologetically oriented, pastoral yet deeply learned exegete, confronts the early Enlightenment challenges to the Bible’s authority. He engages with issues of translation and the difficult questions about authorship, provenance, and genre being asked in his day, especially in regards to the three books traditionally ascribed to King Solomon. Who wrote Proverbs and Ecclesiastes? How can the worldly wisdom of these books be reconciled with the Christian gospel? Is Canticles just a royal wedding song celebrating human love? In turn, the annotations on Isaiah and Jeremiah are crucially concerned with the relevance and evidential value of the Hebrew prophets for the claims of Christian theology. If seen in their original contexts, in what ways can the oracles of Isaiah and Jeremiah be understood to speak of Christ, the gospel and the second one coming? 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. The annotations shift between detailed attention to this historical dimension of the texts and typological and allegorical readings. Moreover, a number of the entries reveal a new “”Baconian”” concern with demonstrating the factual realism of the scriptural narratives by recourse to empirical evidence and the natural sciences.

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