Biblia Americana

Cotton Mather

doi:10.1628/978-3-16-163501-4

Cotton Mather

Biblia Americana

America's First Bible Commentary. A Synoptic Commentary on the Old and New Testaments. Volume 4: Ezra - Psalms

Edited by Harry Clark Maddux, Paul Silas Peterson and Reiner Smolinski

[Biblia Americana. Der älteste amerikanische Bibelkommentar. Band 4: Esra-Psalmen.]

2014. XXIV, 865 pages.

DOI 10.1628/978-3-16-163501-4

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Cotton Mather's commentary on Ezra through the Psalms is a central part of the massive endeavor that he called »Biblia Americana.« Here, he links biblical to secular history, analyzes the problem of evil in creation, and considers the Psalms both as Hebrew poetry and as Christian prophecy.

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Cotton Mather (1663-1728) The leading New England theologian of his period, Mather was both a defender of Reformed orthodoxy and an intellectual innovator, who propagated the Pietist renewal of Protestantism and embraced ideas of the Early Enlightenment. Best known for his Magnalia Christi Americana (1702), he published more than 400 works in various fields including church history, natural theology, and medicine.

Harry Clark Maddux Born 1957; 1987 BA in English, Columbus State University, Columbus, Georgia; 1996 MA in English, Purdue University; 2001 PhD in English/American Studies, Purdue University; 2011 Associate Professor in English, Austin Peay State University; currently Director of Service-Learning at Appalachian State University.

Paul Silas Peterson Born 1979; theological studies in Portland, Edinburgh and Tübingen; Privatdozent Dr. theol., Protestant Faculty of Theology of the University of Tübingen.

Reiner Smolinski Born 1954; 1987 PhD in English and American Studies from The Pennsylvania State University; Professor of Early American Literature and Culture at Georgia State University (Atlanta).