Abstract
Cotton Mather, Jonathan Dickinson, and Jonathan Edwards kept current with European historical and philological scholarship regarding the Bible to varying degrees. However, interest in the study of biblical Hebrew and Greek declined precipitously among Americans who came after them. Although the first few generations of Puritans in New England honored biblical scholarship, by the middle of the eighteenth century, the study of the biblical languages declined in colleges.1 In contrast, scholars in England were interpreting the Bible by more sophisticated historical methods. For example, Robert Lowth argued that the biblical interpreter must be more sensitive to literary genres and historical contexts. His insights were largely lost on his eighteenth-century American counterparts.2
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