125th Annual Meeting (January 6-9, 2011): America’s First Bible Commentary: A Roundtable on the Edition of Cotton Mather’s <em>Biblia Americana</em>

America’s First Bible Commentary: A Roundtable on the Edition of Cotton Mather’s Biblia Americana

American Society of Church History 13

Friday, January 7, 2011: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM

St. George Room C (The Westin Copley Place)

Chair:

Reiner Smolinski, Georgia State University

Papers:

Extirpation of Idolatry: Cotton Mather on the Historical Books
Kenneth P. Minkema, Yale University

The Genealogy of Races and the Problem of Slavery in Cotton Mather's Biblia Americana
Jan Stievermann, University of Tübingen

Regaining Paradise: Cotton Mather's Biblia Americana and the Daughters of Eve
Helen K. Gelinas, University of Tübingen

Biblical Commentary as Social Critique: The Biblia as a Measure of Mather's Practical Theology
Robert Brown, James Madison University

Comment:

David D. Hall, Harvard Divinity School

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