10 Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, and the Relationship Between Historical and Spiritual Exegesis in Early Evangelicalism

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. List of Abbreviations ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Part 1 Commentators and Commentaries
7. 1 Bible Editions, Translations, and Commentaries in German Pietism 17
8. 2 Biblical Aids, Editions, Translations, and Commentaries by Dissenters, Methodists, and Church of England Evangelicals in Eighteenth-Century England 36
9. Part 2 Historical Trajectories and Transitions
10. 3 Early Modern Dutch Reformed Exegesis and Its Pietist-Evangelical Reception 55
11. 4 Reading the Bible: John Owen and Early Evangelical “Biblicism” 73
12. 5 Bible Politics and Early Evangelicalism: Scriptural Submission and Resistance in Nonconformist Commentary 91
13. 6 The Bible in Early Pietist and Evangelical Missions 109
14. Part 3 Interpretive Approaches, Issues, and Debates
15. 7 The Evangelical Supernatural in Early Modern British Protestantism: Cotton Mather and Jonathan Edwards on the Miracles of Jesus 131
16. 8 Lay Appropriations and Female Interpretations of the Bible in German Pietism 148
17. 9 “My Beloved Is White and Ruddy”: Particular Baptist Readings of the Song of Songs in the Long Eighteenth Century 166
18. 10 Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, and the Relationship Between Historical and Spiritual Exegesis in Early Evangelicalism 182
19. 11 Reading Revelation and Revelatory Readings in Early Awakened Protestantism: A Transatlantic Comparison 200
20. Part 4 The Bible and Lived Religion
21. 12 “At Any Price Give Me the Book of God!”: Devotional Intent and Bible Reading for the Early Evangelicals 223
22. 13 Spirit of the Word: Scripture in the Lives of Evangelical and Moravian Women in the New World, 1730–1830 242
23. 14 Moravians and the Bible in the Atlantic World: The Case of the Daily Watchwords in Bethlehem, PA, 1742–1745 261
24. Conclusion 280
25. List of Contributors 285
26. Index of Scripture 289
27. General Index 293