Bela Bates Edwards (1802–1852) was an American man of letters.
Edwards was born at Southampton, Massachusetts, on 4 July 1802.
From 1828 to 1833 he was assistant Secretary of the American Education Society (organized in Boston in 1815 to assist students for the ministry), and from 1828 to 1842 was editor of the society's newsletter, which after 1831 was called the American Quarterly Register.
[1] He also founded (in 1833) and edited the American Quarterly Observer; from 1836 to 1841 edited the Biblical Repository (after 1837 called the American Biblical Repository) with which the Observer was merged in 1835; and was editor-in-chief of Bibliotheca Sacra from 1844 to 1851.
[citation needed] He died at Athens, Georgia, on 20 April 1852.