The “Blank Bible”: Parts 1 & 2 (The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 24 | WJE)
Overview
In 1730, Jonathan Edwards acquired a book-like, leather-bound manuscript containing an interleaved printed edition of the King James Version of the Bible. Over the next three decades, Edwards proceeded to write in the manuscript more than 5,000 notes and entries relating to biblical texts (though paradoxically he called the manuscript his “Blank Bible”). Only a fraction of the entries has ever been published. This volume presents a complete edition of the “Blank Bible” accompanied by an informative introduction, multiple appendixes, and an extensive index.
This volume, perhaps the most unusual in Edwards’ œuvre, brings to light more clearly than ever before the full scope of his creative investment in biblical studies.
- Presents the complete edition of Jonathan Edwards’ “Blank Bible,” never before published
- Provides Edwards’ 5,000+ notes on biblical texts, written over 30 years
- Includes an introduction, index, and appendixes
Top Highlights
“good. It is but the occasion of Satan’s having the greater advantage.” (Page 851)
“The saints will rejoice in seeing vengeance executed on their enemies, upon several accounts. 1. Because they will herein see glorious justice executed, which they will have a more lively sense of in the punishment of that wickedness by which they have so extremely suffered.” (Page 1237)
“ close study of a primary sacred text, namely the Bible, as well as commentaries on it and related satellite texts” (Page 4)
“God was as it were in haste to deliver his son from the grave.7” (Page 850)
“It is therefore much more probable it was a shark.” (Page 850)
- Title: The “Blank Bible”: Part 1 & Part 2
- Author: Jonathan Edwards
- Series: The Works of Jonathan Edwards
- Volume: 24
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Print Publication Date: 2006
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Pages: 1435
- Era: era:modern
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Bible › Commentaries
- ISBNs: 9780300109313, 0300109318
- Resource ID: LLS:EDWARDS24P1
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T23:37:26Z
Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) is considered one of America’s greatest theologians. While attending Yale College, he encountered the same Calvinism that had influenced his own Puritan upbringing.
Three years after Edwards was ordained as a minister, the First Great Awakening began in his church, which prompted Edwards to study conversion and revival within the context of Calvinism. During the revival, Edwards preached his most famous sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” and penned many of his most popular works, including Distinguishing Marks of a Work of the Spirit of God, A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections, and Life and Diary of the Rev. David Brainerd.
In 1757, Edwards reluctantly became president of the College of New Jersey (Princeton University), where he hoped to complete two major works—an expansion of his treatise on the history of redemption and a study of the harmony of the Old and New Testaments. The Works of Jonathan Edwards (26 vols.) is a massive collection containing five decades’ worth of study and scholarship on and from Edwards.