Desiderius Erasmus was the first to make the Greek New Testament available in printed form. By doing so he established the form the Greek New Testament would take for almost four hundred years. Consequently, vernacular translations based on the Greek reflected that form. In the English-speaking world, where the King James Version dominated until the 1980s, his influence persisted for over 450 years. Some aspects of it persist in the majority of English versions in use today.
AlandK.AlandB., The text of the New Testament: An introduction to the critical editions and to the theory and practice of modern textual criticism. Second edition, (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 1989).
2.
AugustijnC., Erasmus: His Life, Works, and Influence, trans. GraysonJ. C. (Toronto: University of Toronto, 1991).
3.
BaintonR. H., Erasmus of Christendom (London: William Collins, 1969).
4.
de JongeH. J., ‘Novum Testamentum a nobis versum: The Essence of Erasmus’ Edition of the New Testament’, Journal of Theological Studies, 35 (1984): 394–413.
5.
DickensA. G.JonesW. R. D., Erasmus the Reformer (London: Methuen, 1994).
6.
EppE. J., ‘Critical editions and the development of text-critical methods, part 2: from Lachmann (1831) to the present’, in RichesJohn (ed.) The New Cambridge History of the Bible, vol. 4: From 1750 to the Present (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015), 13–48.
7.
FeeG. D., ‘Modern textual criticism and the Textus Receptus’, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society21 (1978): 19–34.
8.
FeeG. D., ‘The Majority Text and the Original Text of the New Testament’, The Bible Translator31.1 (1980): 107–18.
9.
GreenL. C., ‘The influence of Erasmus upon Melanchthon, Luther and the Formula of Concord in the Doctrine of Justification’, Church History43 (1974): 183–200.
10.
HolmesM. W., ‘The “Majority text debate”: New Form of an Old Issue’, Themelios8.2 (1983): 13–19.
11.
MetzgerB. M., The Text of the New Testament: its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration, 3rd, enlarged edn (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992).
12.
MetzgerB. M., A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament, 2nd edn (Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1994).
13.
NA28: Nestle-AlandNovum Testamentum Graece ed. Barbara & Kurt Aland., revised under the direction of Holger Strutwolf (Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2012).
14.
NIrV: Holy Bible: New International Reader’s Version (NIrV), (Grand Rapids, MI: Zonderkidz, 1996).
15.
SchwarzW., Principles and Problems of Biblical Translation: some Reformation Controversies and their Background, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1955).
16.
SowardsJ. K., Desiderius Erasmus, (Boston, MA: Twayne Publishers, 1975).
17.
StrongJ., The exhaustive concordance of the Bible (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1894).
18.
TracyJ. D., Erasmus of the Low Countries, (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996).
19.
WürthweinE., The text of the Old Testament: An Introduction to the Biblia Hebraica (London: SCM, 1980).
