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SUMMARY:Editing Cotton Mather's Biblia Americana (1693-1728): America’s First Bible Commentary and Storehouse of Early Modern Learning
DESCRIPTION:In this hybrid lunch and learn at the Congregational Library & Archives\, Dr. Jan Stieverman and Dr. Theodore Delwiche discussed their most recent volume of Cotton Mather’s Biblia Americana and the work of creating critical editions of important religious texts more generally. \nThis volume of the Biblia Americana (1693-1728) contains Cotton Mather’s annotations on the gospels of Matthew\, Mark\, and Luke. A mixture of pious explications and historical-textual criticism\, the annotations are a treasure-trove for scholars interested in the development of Reformed theology and biblical exegesis during a decisive period of intellectual change in the early modern Atlantic world. \nDrs. Stieverman and Delwiche reflected on the opportunities and challenges of creating this critical edition\, part of a ten-volume series begun in the early 2000s to make Mather’s important unpublished 4\,500-page manuscript accessible. One of the most significant untapped sources in American religious and intellectual history\, Mather’s commentary not only reflects the growing influence of Enlightenment thought and the rise of the transatlantic evangelical awakening\, it also marks the beginning of historical criticism of the Bible as text in New England. \n  \nSPEAKER BIOS \nDr. Jan Stievermann is Professor of the History of Christianity in the US at Heidelberg University. He has written books and essays on a broad range of topics in the fields of American religious history\, culture\, and literature\, including a comprehensive study of the theology and aesthetics of Ralph Waldo Emerson (in German; Schoeningh\, 2007) and Prophecy\, Piety\, and the Problem of Historicity: Interpreting the Hebrew Scriptures in Cotton Mather’s Biblia Americana (Mohr Siebeck\, 2016). In the scholarly edition of the Biblia Americana manuscript\, he is responsible for volumes 5\, 10\, and 7 (2015; 2023; forthcoming in 2026)\, and serves as the executive editor of the whole project. His articles have been published in leading journals\, including William and Mary\, Early American Literature\, Church History\, and Religion and American Culture. Among other multi-authored volumes\, he co-edited A Peculiar Mixture: German-Language Cultures and Identities in Eighteenth-Century North America (Pennsylvania State University Press\, 2013)\, Religion and the Marketplace in the United States (Oxford\, 2014)\, the Oxford Handbook of Jonathan Edwards (2021)\, The Bible in Early Transatlantic Pietism and Evangelicalism (Penn State University Press\, 2022)\, and two volumes forthcoming with Oxford on James W.C. Pennington\, one a critical anthology of Pennington’s writings\, the other a collection of essays on his life and work. \nDr. Theodore (Teddy) Delwiche is a post-doc at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies. He earned his doctorate in early American history at Yale\, his master’s in early modern European history at the University of Groningen (the Netherlands)\, and his bachelor’s in classics at Harvard. His research interests lie at the intersection of early modern European intellectual history\, colonial America\, and classical reception studies. He is the author of roughly 20 different articles\, reviews\, and chapters on\, among other topics\, early modern shorthand\, the culture of the classics in early America\, and the history of alchemy. In addition to serving as a co-editor of a forthcoming volume of Cotton Mather’s Biblia Americana\, he is revising his first monograph on classical education in colonial America and plotting his next book-length project on the history of Americans studying abroad.
URL:https://congregationallibrary.org/events/editing-mathers-biblia-americana
LOCATION:Congregational Library & Archives\, 14 Beacon Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talks,Lunch & Learn
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SUMMARY:Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America
DESCRIPTION:In this virtual book talk\, Dr. Karin Wulf spoke about her new book on the power of genealogy in shaping Early America–and American society today. \nLineage tells the story of genealogy’s attraction and power\, for individuals\, families\, and institutions alike\, in eighteenth-century British America. In early America\, people produced a profusion of information about their family connections\, often because they were moved to write or create genealogies but also because they were required to by their church or their local government or a court. They created all manner of textual genealogies on sheets and scraps of bound and loose paper\, in account books and in the blank pages and margins of printed books\, but also in images and material form. \nThe power in family connections was governmental\, legal\, and religious\, as well as cultural and social\, echoing the structures of Britain itself—but in the American context it also structured slavery and freedom in which\, despite the patriarchy of law and society\, children’s status was determined by their mother’s. The twin forces of intimate meaning and instrumental purpose made genealogy in British America distinctly potent. \nWhile the American Revolution wrought changes in American society\, it did not disrupt the signal importance of genealogy or the powerful cultural logic of lineage—a legacy from the colonial period that would continue to mark the United States beyond its early history. \n  \nSPEAKER BIO \nDr. Karin Wulf is the Director and Librarian of the John Carter Brown Library\, and Professor of History at Brown University. A historian of early America focused on gender\, family\, and politics\, she writes widely for both public and academic audiences about history\, the worlds of scholarship and scholarly publishing\, and libraries and archives. Her new book is Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in 18th Century British America. She serves on a variety of non-profit boards and is an incoming Vice-President of the American Historical Association.
URL:https://congregationallibrary.org/events/lineage
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Book Talks
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SUMMARY:Religions of Revolution Symposium
DESCRIPTION:This spotlight symposium on the religious thinkers and ideas that shaped the American Revolution was co-sponsored by The New England Quarterly and the Congregational Library & Archives. \nAs we approached the 250th anniversary of the American founding\, we welcomed the opportunity for new perspectives on this global event. Using the CLA’s Religion of Revolution digital exhibition as a springboard\, we put Congregationalism—once Massachusetts’ established religion—in wider conversation with the many faiths of that era. \nFor more information\, please see the conference webpage.
URL:https://congregationallibrary.org/events/religions-revolution-symposium
LOCATION:Congregational Library & Archives\, 14 Beacon Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Revolutionary Stories
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