Cotton Mather and Biblia Americana - America's First Bible Commentary

Reiner Smolinski (Herausgegeben von) 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).Jan Stievermann (Herausgegeben von) Born 1975; 2005 PhD in American Studies from the University of Tübingen; since 2011 Professor for the History of Christianity in the USA at the University of Heidelberg.

• Harry Stout: Preface - Jan Stievermann: Introduction - William van Arragon: The Glorious Translation of an American Elijah: Mourning Cotton Mather in 1728 - E. Brooks Holifield: The Abridging of Cotton Mather - Francis J. Bremer: New England Puritanism and the Ecumenical Background of Mather's Biblia Americana - Oliver Scheiding: The World as Parish: Cotton Mather, August Hermann Francke, and Transatlantic Religious Networks - Adriaan Neele: Peter van Mastricht's Theoretico-Practica as an Interpretive Framework for Cotton Mather's Work - Winton U. Solberg: Cotton Mather, Biblia Americana, and the Enlightenment - Michael Dopffel: Between Biblical Literalism and Scientific Inquiry: Cotton Mather's Commentary on Jeremiah 7:8 - Paul Wise: Empiricism and the Invisible World in Cotton Mather's Biblia Americana - Rick Kennedy: Historians as Flower Pickers and Honey Bees: Cotton Mather and the Commonplace-Book Tradition of History - Kenneth P. Minkema: Flee from Idols: Cotton Mather and the Historical Books - Reiner Smolinski: Eager Imitators of the Egyptian Inventions: Cotton Mather's Engagement with John Spencer and the Debate about the Pagan Origin of the Mosaic Laws, Rites, and Customs - Harry Clark Maddux: Euhemerism and Ancient Theology in Cotton Mather's Biblia Americana - Stephen J. Stein: Cotton Mather and Jonathan Edwards on the Epistle of James: A Comparative Study - Paul S. Peterson: The Perfection of Beauty: Cotton Mather's Christological Interpretation of the Shechinah Glory in Biblia Americana and its Theological Contexts - Michael P. Clark: The Eschatology of Signs in Cotton Mather's Biblia Americana, and Jonathan Edward's Case for the Legibility of God's Providence - David Komline: The Controversy of the Present Time: Arianism, William Whiston, and the Development of Mather's Late Eschatology - Helen K. Gelinas: Regaining Paradise: Cotton Mather's Biblia Americana and the Daughters of Eve - Robert E. Brown: Hair Down to There: Nature, Culture, and Gender in Cotton Mather's Social Theology - Jan Stievermann: The Genealogy of Races and the Problem of Slavery in Cotton Mather's Biblia Americana