Erasmus’ New Testament editions online

[This post is regularly updated to reflect new finds and possibilities; for any suggestions, please use the comments.]

Erasmus published five editions of his Latin-Greek New Testament, with annotations, in 1516, 1519, 1522, 1527, and 1535. Gradually, all these editions have become available online.

1516

The Swiss e-rara.ch has Erasmus’ Novum Instrumentum omne of 1516, with the Annotationes.

Navigation is easy, and the site’s table of contents is extensive (though not as exhaustive as to contain each NT book or even chapter). The quality of the images is good. From the contents page, one can download PDF files of parts of the book.

The only drawback I can see for now is that one cannot download a PDF of the entire book, as is possible with the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.

There is also a GB version of the 1516 edition.

1519

Erasmus’ second edition of 1519 with the Annotationes is not (yet?) available at e-rara, but at the University of Jena; it can also be downloaded as PDF.
It is possible to make links to specific page views, e.g. Erasmus’ conjecture φθονεῖτε at Jas 4:2, for example (and his annotation on the reading).

1522

Erasmus’ third edition of 1522, with the Annotationes, is now available as well at e-rara.

1527

Erasmus’ fourth edition of 1527, with the Annotationes, is now available as well at e-rara.

1535

Erasmus’ 1535 edition can be found at the Erasmus Centre for Early Modern Studies, but only the New Testament text, not the Annotationes, and only in DjVU format.

New Book

Dear all,
A brief note to inform you that a new book of mine has been published at Mohr Siebeck:

Christ, the Spirit and the Community of God: Essays on the Acts of the Apostles
(WUNT 2/293; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010) xviii-237pp. ISBN 978-3-16-150675-8.

This volume collects text-critical, exegetical and biblical theological essays on the Acts of the Apostles, dealing primarily with the opening chapters of Acts in the wider context of first-century Christianity and its Umwelt. The articles include treatments of the ascension and exaltation of Jesus in its early Jewish and early Christian context, the death and replacement of Judas Iscariot and the varying traditions of his death, the role of Judas and the Jews in the history of anti-semitism, Luke's understanding of Pentecost and the outpouring of the Spirit, early Christian community life in Acts, the function of the early resurrection and exaltation Christology in Peter's Pentecost discourse, and Luke's special treatment of Paul in relation to the Twelve apostles in Jerusalem. The book not only contains some previously published material (all thoroughly updated and revised), but also some articles appearing for the first time in English and two brand new essays.

With (more or less) sincere apologies for the delay of publication of volume two of my Tussen tekst en lezer.

For more information see my homepage or the editor's website (www.mohr.de)

Just out: Paulus en de rest

Yesterday (Nov. 10th, 2010), Bert Jan Lietaert Peerbolte’s new book was presented: Paulus en de rest. Van Farizeeër tot profeet van Jezus.

The book, as you will have noticed, is in Dutch. More information (and the possibility to order your personal copy) at the publisher's site. Any English publisher out there, interested in a translation?