How to Go to Heaven, or How Heaven Goes? Natural Science and Interpretation in Cotton Mather's “Biblia Americana” (1693–1728)

Smolinski, Reiner

doi:10.1162/tneq.2008.81.2.278

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How to Go to Heaven, or How Heaven Goes? Natural Science and Interpretation in Cotton Mather's “Biblia Americana” (1693–1728)

Reiner Smolinski

Reiner Smolinski, Professor of Early American Literature and Culture at Georgia State University, is the General Editor of Cotton Mather's enormous “Biblia Americana” holograph manuscript. He has published on a wide variety of Matheriana, on millennialism, typology, and Salem witchcraft, on John Cotton, Roger Williams, Isaac Newton, Poe, and Hawthorne, but most recently on Mather's Spinozism. Follow the progress of the “Biblia Americana” project at www.bibliaamericana.gsu.edu.

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Reiner Smolinski

Reiner Smolinski, Professor of Early American Literature and Culture at Georgia State University, is the General Editor of Cotton Mather's enormous “Biblia Americana” holograph manuscript. He has published on a wide variety of Matheriana, on millennialism, typology, and Salem witchcraft, on John Cotton, Roger Williams, Isaac Newton, Poe, and Hawthorne, but most recently on Mather's Spinozism. Follow the progress of the “Biblia Americana” project at www.bibliaamericana.gsu.edu.

Online ISSN: 1937-2213

Print ISSN: 0028-4866

2008

The New England Quarterly (2008) 81 (2): 278–329.

https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq.2008.81.2.278

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Cotton Mather (1663–1728), New England's Puritan polymath, participated in a global academic network. In his immense commentary “Biblia Americana,” a significant untapped resource of American intellectual history, he evaluated early Enlightenment scholarship as he weighed in on such hotly debated issues as the creation story, Noah's flood, and the Mosaic miracles.

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