Prophecy, Piety, and the Problem of Historicity: by Jan Stievermann

By Jan Stievermann

Jan Stievermann's pioneering research of Cotton Mather's Biblia Americana examines this Puritan scholar's engagement with the Hebrew Bible as previous testomony. the writer focuses in particular on Mather's fight to uphold or alter conventional typological and allegorical readings within the face of a becoming wisdom of the historicity of Scriptures. different key matters contain Mather's interventions within the modern debates over the legitimacy of Christian interpretations of the prophets, in addition to over the authorship, provenance, style, and religious import of texts equivalent to Ecclesiastes and Canticles. Stievermann's booklet yields interesting insights into an underappreciated section of exegesis that was once without delay traditionalist and cutting edge, apologetically orientated, pious, and open to new modes of historical-textual feedback. additionally, it indicates how Mather's biblical exegesis matches into the wider improvement of Puritan theology and identity.

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