Cotton Mather

Biblia Americana

Cotton Mather (1663–1728): 
The leading New England theologian of his period, Mather was both a defender of Reformed orthodoxy and an intellectual innovator, who propagated the Pietist renewal of Protestantism and embraced ideas of the Early Enlightenment. Best known for his Magnalia Christi Americana (1702), he published more than 400 works in various fields including church history, natural theology, and medicine. 

America's First Bible Commentary

Editorial Committee for Cotton Mather's Biblia Americana

Reiner Smolinski, General Editor, Georgia State University
Jan Stievermann, Executive Editor, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Robert E. Brown, James Madison University
Mary Ava Chamberlain, Wright State University
Theodore R. Delwiche, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Rick Kennedy
, Point Loma Nazarene University
Harry Clark Maddux, Appalachian State University
Kenneth P. Minkema, Yale University

Scheduled to appear in ten volumes, this scholarly edition of Cotton Mather's Biblia Americana (1693–1728) makes available for the first time the oldest comprehensive commentary on the Bible composed in British North America.

Biblia Americana
America's First Bible Commentary. A Synoptic Commentary on the Old and New Testaments. Volume 1: Genesis
2010. XIX, 1337 pages.
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ISBN 978-3-16-150190-6
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America's First Bible Commentary. A Synoptic Commentary on the Old and New Testaments. Volume 2: Exodus - Deuteronomy
2019. XXII, 1461 pages.
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ISBN 978-3-16-158946-1
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America's First Bible Commentary. A Synoptic Commentary on the Old and New Testaments. Volume 3: Joshua - 2 Chronicles
2013. XVII, 893 pages.
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ISBN 978-3-16-152437-0
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America's First Bible Commentary. A Synoptic Commentary on the Old and New Testaments. Volume 4: Ezra - Psalms
2014. XXIV, 865 pages.
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ISBN 978-3-16-152949-8
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America's First Bible Commentary. A Synoptic Commentary on the Old and New Testaments. Volume 5: Proverbs - Jeremiah
2015. XVIII, 1101 pages.
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ISBN 978-3-16-154266-4
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America's First Bible Commentary. A Synoptic Commentary on the Old and New Testaments. Volume 8: John-Acts and The History of the Jews
2025. Approx. 1000 pages.
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ISBN 978-3-16-164324-8
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America's First Bible Commentary. A Synoptic Commentary on the Old and New Testaments. Volume 9: Romans - Philemon
2018. XV, 754 pages.
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ISBN 978-3-16-155880-1
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America's First Bible Commentary. A Synoptic Commentary on the Old and New Testaments. Volume 10: Hebrews - Revelation
2023. XVI, 1101 pages.
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ISBN 978-3-16-161686-0
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