and prominence as a leader in the emerging eighteenth-century evangelical movement. Collectively, they have established his status as one of America’s most talented intellectuals. Since the 1990s, new attention has been paid to his interest in the Bible.2 Although diverse viewpoints inform these scholarly efforts, together they confirm that Edwards immersed himself in what has been called a “concentric tradition of reading” that involved the close study of a primary sacred text, namely the Bible,