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This is the first complete edition of the private biblical notebook that Jonathan Edwards compiled over a period of nearly thirty-five years. Edwards’ “Notes on Scripture” confirms the centrality of the Bible in his thought and provides more balance to earlier depictions of his writings that emphasized the scientific and philosophical while overlooking the biblical dimension. In this critical...

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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