Ryan P. Hoselton is Instructor and Postdoctoral Research Associate at Heidelberg University. He is the author of The Love of God Holds Creation Together: Andrew Fuller’s Theology of Virtue. Jan Stievermann is Professor of the History of Christianity in the United States at Heidelberg University and Director of the Jonathan Edwards Center Germany. He is the author of Prophecy, Piety, and the Problem of Historicity: Interpreting the Hebrew Scriptures in Cotton Mather’s “Biblia Americana” and coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Jonathan Edwards. Douglas A. Sweeney is Dean and Professor of Divinity at Beeson Divinity School, Samford University. He is the author of Edwards the Exegete: Biblical Interpretation and Anglo-Protestant Culture on the Edge of the Enlightenment and coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Jonathan Edwards. Michael A. G. Haykin is Professor of Church History and Director of the Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the coeditor of A New Divinity: Transatlantic Reformed Evangelical Debates During the Long Eighteenth Century and coauthor of Being a Pastor: A Conversation with Andrew Fuller.

“. . . an important and deeply learned work.”—Boyd Stanley Schlenther The Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society

• AcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionRyan P. HoseltonPart 1: Commentators and Commentaries1. Bible Editions, Translations, and Commentaries in German PietismDouglas H. Shantz2. Biblical Aids, Editions, Translations, and Commentaries by Dissenters, Methodists, and Church of England Evangelicals in Eighteenth-Century EnglandIsabel RiversPart 2: Historical Trajectories and Transitions3. Early Modern Dutch Reformed Exegesis and Its Pietist-Evangelical ReceptionAdriaan C. Neele4. Reading the Bible: John Owen and Early Evangelical “Biblicism”Crawford Gribben5. Bible Politics and Early Evangelicalism: nScriptural Submission and Resistance in Nonconformist CommentaryRobert E. Brown6. The Bible in Early Pietist and Evangelical MissionsRyan P. HoseltonPart 3: Interpretive Approaches, Issues, and Debates7. The Evangelical Supernatural in Early Modern British Protestantism: Cotton Mather and Jonathan Edwards on the Miracles of JesusDouglas A. Sweeney8. Lay Appropriations and Female Interpretations of the Bible in German PietismRuth Albrecht9. “My Beloved Is White and Ruddy”: Particular Baptist Readings of the Song of Songs in the Long Eighteenth CenturyMichael A. G. Haykin10. Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, and the Relationship Between Historical and Spiritual Exegesis in Early EvangelicalismKenneth P. Minkema11. Reading Revelation and Revelatory Readings in Early Awakened Protestantism: A Transatlantic ComparisonJan StievermannPart 4: The Bible and Lived Religion12. “At Any Price Give Me the Book of God!”: Devotional Intent and Bible Reading for the Early EvangelicalsBruce Hindmarsh13. Spirit of the Word: Scripture in the Lives of Evangelical and Moravian Women in the New World, 1730–1830Benjamin M. Pietrenka and Marilyn J. Westerkamp14. Moravians and the Bible in the Atlantic World: The Case of the Daily Watchwords in Bethlehem, PA, 1742–1745Peter VogtConclusionDouglas A. Sweeney, Jan Stievermann, and Ryan P. HoseltonList of ContributorsIndex of ScriptureGeneral Index

Ryan P. Hoselton is Instructor and Postdoctoral Research Associate at Heidelberg University. He is the author of The Love of God Holds Creation Together: Andrew Fuller’s Theology of Virtue. Jan Stievermann is Professor of the History of Christianity in the United States at Heidelberg University and Director of the Jonathan Edwards Center Germany. He is the author of Prophecy, Piety, and the Problem of Historicity: Interpreting the Hebrew Scriptures in Cotton Mather’s “Biblia Americana” and coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Jonathan Edwards. Douglas A. Sweeney is Dean and Professor of Divinity at Beeson Divinity School, Samford University. He is the author of Edwards the Exegete: Biblical Interpretation and Anglo-Protestant Culture on the Edge of the Enlightenment and coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Jonathan Edwards. Michael A. G. Haykin is Professor of Church History and Director of the Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the coeditor of A New Divinity: Transatlantic Reformed Evangelical Debates During the Long Eighteenth Century and coauthor of Being a Pastor: A Conversation with Andrew Fuller.

“. . . an important and deeply learned work.”—Boyd Stanley Schlenther The Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society

• AcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionRyan P. HoseltonPart 1: Commentators and Commentaries1. Bible Editions, Translations, and Commentaries in German PietismDouglas H. Shantz2. Biblical Aids, Editions, Translations, and Commentaries by Dissenters, Methodists, and Church of England Evangelicals in Eighteenth-Century EnglandIsabel RiversPart 2: Historical Trajectories and Transitions3. Early Modern Dutch Reformed Exegesis and Its Pietist-Evangelical ReceptionAdriaan C. Neele4. Reading the Bible: John Owen and Early Evangelical “Biblicism”Crawford Gribben5. Bible Politics and Early Evangelicalism: nScriptural Submission and Resistance in Nonconformist CommentaryRobert E. Brown6. The Bible in Early Pietist and Evangelical MissionsRyan P. HoseltonPart 3: Interpretive Approaches, Issues, and Debates7. The Evangelical Supernatural in Early Modern British Protestantism: Cotton Mather and Jonathan Edwards on the Miracles of JesusDouglas A. Sweeney8. Lay Appropriations and Female Interpretations of the Bible in German PietismRuth Albrecht9. “My Beloved Is White and Ruddy”: Particular Baptist Readings of the Song of Songs in the Long Eighteenth CenturyMichael A. G. Haykin10. Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, and the Relationship Between Historical and Spiritual Exegesis in Early EvangelicalismKenneth P. Minkema11. Reading Revelation and Revelatory Readings in Early Awakened Protestantism: A Transatlantic ComparisonJan StievermannPart 4: The Bible and Lived Religion12. “At Any Price Give Me the Book of God!”: Devotional Intent and Bible Reading for the Early EvangelicalsBruce Hindmarsh13. Spirit of the Word: Scripture in the Lives of Evangelical and Moravian Women in the New World, 1730–1830Benjamin M. Pietrenka and Marilyn J. Westerkamp14. Moravians and the Bible in the Atlantic World: The Case of the Daily Watchwords in Bethlehem, PA, 1742–1745Peter VogtConclusionDouglas A. Sweeney, Jan Stievermann, and Ryan P. HoseltonList of ContributorsIndex of ScriptureGeneral Index