Biblia Americana: America's First Bible Commentary. Volume 3: Joshua - 2 Chronicles

ISBN-13: 9783161524370 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 1000 str.

Cotton Mather; Kenneth P. Minkema

Opis

The third volume of the Biblia Americana contains some 1250 of Mather's -illustrations,- as he called them, on the books of Joshua, Judges, Ruth, Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles. These entries reveal Mather as a sacred historian, marshaling an array of approaches and disciplines to illuminate and defend the Scripture accounts. He revisits certain themes throughout such as idols and idolatry, parallels between the Hebrew Bible and the history and mythology of -pagan- cultures, and typological significations of events and characters. Other topics warranted sustained attention in a long entry or a series of entries, such as accounts of when the sun stood still; human sacrifice, as instanced in Jephthah's vow, the building, running, and destruction of Solomon's Temple, the nature of prophecy, the dispersion of the Israelites in captivity, and the timing of their eventual return.

O autorze

(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. Born 1958; Executive Editor and Director, Jonathan Edwards Center, Yale University; Research Faculty, Yale University Divinity School; Research Associate, University of the Free State, South Africa.