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Title Prophecy, piety, and the problem of historicity : interpreting the Hebrew scriptures in Cotton Mather's 'Biblia Americana' / Jan Stievermann
Published Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, [2016]

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Series Beiträge zur historischen Theologie, 0340-6741 ; 179
Beiträge zur historischen Theologie ; 179. 0340-6741
Contents Cover; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I; 1. Cotton Mather and the Character and Composition of the "Biblia Americana"; 1.1 Contemporary Models and Sources of the "Biblia Americana"; 2. Situating Mather's Biblical Criticism: Main Tendencies and Questions; 2.1 The Theological and Apologetical Orientation of the "Biblia Americana"; 2.2 Mather's Understanding of the Authority, Inspiration, and Veracity of the Bible; 3. Themes and Features of the "Biblia Americana"; 3.1 Translation and Textual Problems
3.2 Evidentialism, Baconianism, and the Manifold Senses of Scripture3.3 Canonical and Prefigurative Exegesis in the "Biblia"; 3.4 The Millennialist Dimension of the "Biblia Americana"; 4. The Significance of the "Biblia" for Understanding Mather and American Puritanism; 4.1 Traditional Views of Mather and His Place in American History; 4.2 Re-thinking Mather and the Puritans in Light of the "Biblia"; 4.3 What is American about the "Biblia Americana"?; 4.4 Toward a New Mather; Part II ; 1. Issues of Authorship, Provenance, and Genre
2. Mather's Commentaries on Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Canticles3. Mather's Commentaries on Isaiah and Jeremiah ; Part III ; 1. The Quest for a Historical Realism of the Bible; 2. Biblical Realism and the Ambiguity of Cultural Explanations; 3. Biblical Realism, Natural Philosophy, and the Wonders of the Invisible World; Part IV ; 1. The Prefigurative Approach to the Hebrew Bible and the Problem of Historicity; 2. Typological Readings; 2.1 Revisiting the Americanization Thesis; 3. Allegorical Readings; 4. Mather's First Interpretation of Canticles; Part V
1. The Debate over Old Testament Prophecy and Prophetic Evidence2. The Prophecies Concerning the History of the Church; 3. The Messianic Prophecies; 3.1 Mather's Later Readings of Isa. 7:14; 4. The Eschatological Prophecies; 4.1 Mather's Changing Views on the Eschatological Conversion of the Jews; 4.2 Mather's Vision of the Millennium; 5. Mather's Prophetic Readings of Canticles and Proverbs; Part VI ; 1. The Hermeneutics of Experimental Piety; 2. Mather's Experimental Hermeneutics in Practice; Summary and Conclusion ; Works Cited; Primary Works; Secondary Sources; General Index
Summary Das Buch bietet die erste übergreifende Untersuchung von Cotton Mathers bislang unveröffentlichter Biblia Americana (1693-1728), den frühesten im britischen Nordamerika verfassten Bibelkommentar. Im Zentrum steht Mathers Ringen um das traditionelle christliche Verständnis der hebräischen Bibel als Altes Testament angesichts eines wachsenden Bewusstseins von der Historizität der Schrift
Subject Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728. Biblia Americana.
SUBJECT Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013770
Bible. Old Testament fast
Biblia Americana (Mather, Cotton) fast
Subject Exegese.
Oude Testament.
Receptie.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783161542718
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