like-minded others defended traditional exegetical perspectives at the same time they appropriated some of the new ways of thinking. “Notes on Scripture” reflects the issues that divided exegetes in this transitional period. Much of the discussion and debate over these hermeneutical questions centered on the book of Genesis and the four gospels in the New Testament. It is no accident that the single book of the Bible most commented on by Edwards in “Notes on Scripture” is Genesis, with ninety entries,
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