Joshua - 2 Chronicles (Hardcover)

Joshua - 2 Chronicles By Cotton Mather, Kenneth P. Minkema (Editor) Cover Image

Joshua - 2 Chronicles (Hardcover)

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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.
Cotton Mather (1663-1728), trained at Harvard and ordained in 1685, was a Puritan pastor and scholar at Boston.Kenneth P. Minkema (PhD, University of Connecticut) is the executive editor of The Works of Jonathan Edwards and of the Jonathan Edwards Center and Online Archive at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
Product Details ISBN: 9780801039997
ISBN-10: 0801039991
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Publication Date: December 31st, 2013
Pages: 1000
Language: English
Series: Biblia Americana