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Cotton Mather and "Biblia Americana": America's first Bible commentary: general introduction / Jan Stievermann

Glorious translation of an American Elijah: mourning Cotton Mather in 1728 / William Van Arragon

Abridging of Cotton Mather / E. Brooks Holifield

New England Puritanism and the ecumenical background of Cotton Mather's "Biblia Americana" / Francis J. Bremer

World as parish: Cotton Mather, August Hermann Francke, and transatlantic religious networks / Oliver Scheiding

Peter van Mastricht's Theoretico-practica theologia as an interpretative framework for Cotton Mather's work / Adriaan Neele

Cotton Mather, the "Biblia Americana," and the Enlightenment / Winton U. Solberg

Between biblical literalism and scientific inquiry: Cotton Mather's commentary on Jeremiah 8:7 / Michael Dopffel

Cotton Mather and the invisible world / Paul Wise

Historians as flower pickers and honey bees: Cotton Mather and the commonplace-book tradition of history / Rick Kennedy

"Flee from idols": Cotton Mather and the historical books / Kenneth P. Minkema

"Eager imitators of the Egyptian inventions": Cotton Mather's engagement with John Spencer and the debate about the pagan origin of the mosaic laws, rites, and customs / Reiner Smolinski

Euhemerism and ancient theology in Cotton Mather's "Biblia Americana" / Harry Clark Maddux

Cotton Mather and Jonathan Edwards on the epistle of James: a comparative study / Stephen J. Stein

"Perfection of beauty": Cotton Mather's christological interpretation of the Shechinah glory in the "Biblia Americana" and its theological contexts / Paul Silas Peterson

Eschatology of signs in Cotton Mather's "Biblia Americana" and Jonathan Edwards's case for the legibility of providence / Michael P. Clark

Controversy of the present time: Arianism, William Whiston, and the development of Cotton Mather's late eschatology / David Komline

Regaining paradise: Cotton Mather's "Biblia Americana" and the daughters of Eve / Helen K. Gelinas

Hair down to there: nature, culture, and gender in Cotton Mather's social theology / Robert E. Brown

Genealogy of races and the problem of slavery in Cotton Mather's "Biblia Americana" / Jan Stievermann.

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