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Jonathan Edwards’ Scriptural Practices
No full textKenneth P. Minkema gives readers a view into Jonathan Edwards’ day-to-day practices of engaging with Scripture. He shows how Edwards kept various exegetical manuscripts and developed detailed systems for organizing and indexing his reflections on the Bible. These practices made it easier for him to draw from this material as he constructed theological treatises and developed and repreached sermons. Edwards also regularly conducted “canonical reviews” to systematically examine how Scripture treated different theological themes. This understanding of Edwards’ direct engagement with the Bible and application of his exegetical materials, as Minkema demonstrates, opens up many lines of inquiry into the further study of Edwards as exegete.</p
Review of "A Cotton Mather Reader" by William J. Scheick.
No full textReiner Smolinski and Kenneth P. Minkema, eds. A Cotton Mather Reader. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2022. xxxvi + 392 pp. 25.00 (paperback). Review by William J. Scheick, University of Texas at Austin
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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