This volume serves as a companion piece to the ongoing edition of Cotton Mather's Biblia Americana (1693-1728). Written by some of the most prominent scholars in the field, the essays in this collection offer original in-depth studies of Mather and his hitherto unpublished Bible commentary in the historical context of the Early Enlightenment, and the rise of Pietism. Transcending the pejorative image of the Puritan witch-doctor, Mather emerges from these essays as an erudite scholar and cosmopolitan theologian who was fully immersed in the rising developments of biblical exegesis around the turn of the eighteenth century. Contributors: William van Arragon, Robert E. Brown, Francis J. Bremer, Michael P. Clark, Michael Dopffel, Helen K. Gelinas, E. Brooks Holifield, Rick Kennedy, David Komline, Harry Clark Maddux, Kenneth P. Minkema, Adriaan Neele, Paul S. Peterson, Oliver Scheiding, Reiner Smolinski, Winton U. Solberg, Stephen J. Stein, Jan Stievermann, Harry Stout, Paul Wiseweiterlesen