Prophecy, Piety, and the Problem of Historicity: Interpreting the Hebrew Scriptures in Cotton Mather's 'Biblia Americana': 179 (Beiträge zur historischen Theologie) - Hardcover

Stievermann, Jan

 
9783161542701: Prophecy, Piety, and the Problem of Historicity: Interpreting the Hebrew Scriptures in Cotton Mather's 'Biblia Americana': 179 (Beiträge zur historischen Theologie)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3161542703 ISBN 13: 9783161542701
Verlag: Mohr Siebeck, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

Jan Stievermann's pioneering study of Cotton Mather's Biblia Americana examines this Puritan scholar's engagement with the Hebrew Bible as Old Testament. The author focuses specifically on Mather's struggle to uphold or modify traditional typological and allegorical readings in the face of a growing awareness of the historicity of Scriptures. Other key issues include Mather's interventions in the contemporary debates over the legitimacy of Christian interpretations of the prophets, as well as over the authorship, provenance, genre, and spiritual import of texts such as Ecclesiastes and Canticles. Stievermann's book yields fascinating insights into an underappreciated phase of exegesis that was at once traditionalist and innovative, apologetically oriented, pious, and open to new modes of historical-textual criticism. Moreover, it shows how Mather's biblical exegesis fits into the broader development of Puritan theology and identity.

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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.

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Verlag
Mohr Siebeck
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3161542703
ISBN 13 
9783161542701
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
506
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