Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Book of Concord links posted - I've added several links on the sidebar to locations where the Concordia can be found on-line for viewing or for purchase. (Addall.com is always a great place to look for comparison pricing, although CPH and CBD are not listed in the sites which addall compares). Particularly interesting in this list are the 1580 German edition of the Book of Concord (published in Dresden, scanned from the copy (?)located at(?) Wartburg Seminary's library) and the French edition (which I found when doing research for a mission organization here in northern Minnesota that works with Lutherans in Haiti). Comments and suggestions are welcome.
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The scan is of a volume in the rare book holdings of Concordia Theological Seminary, which they apparently received from the Wartburg Library. I would suspect it originally belonged to Michael Reu, but surely somebody else might know where it comes from, perhaps Bob Smith? You have a fairly comprehensive list. You might want to add the Jacobs edition, which is available from Repristination Press. They sell a reprint of the first edition of Jacobs from the 1880s. The better edition of Jacobs is actually the second edition from 1911. Also, you might want also to link to the 1854 Henkel edition, which "Lutheran Legacy" also has. It remains to this day the only translation of the entire German edition of the Book of Concord. Just some thoughts.
Congrats on a nice web site.
Cordially in Christ,
Paul T. McCain
Many thanks for your kind words and suggestions.
Looking for the Jacobs' BOC, Repristination Press only has a listing online for Jacobs' translation of the Augsburg Confession. (RP does have the English BOC from the Triglotta available.) Years ago, I remember seeing the reprinted Jacobs edition available at the Fort Wayne seminary bookstore, but I was unable to find it in their current online listings. Looking elsewhere, the several used booksellers did have the Jacobs BOC listed.
Again, thank you for your comment and kind words of encouragement.
NWH
Hi Pr. Higgins, yes, you may well be right. The reprint of Jacobs may be out of print and presently unavailable. No great loss in my opinion, however, the supplemental volome they produced was very helpful, that is, Jacobs Vol. II. The "sources and context" volume put out by Augsburg Fortress offers good materials but forces the reader to endure the "femspeak" of the K/W edition and A/F standard editorial policy, as well as the historical revisionism imported into the K/W project, such as referring to people as "Crypto-Philippist" which is an absurd notion, since there was nothing "hidden" at all about their Melancthonian leanings, but everything quite intentionally hidden about their sympathies toward Calvinism. But I digress.
Blessings,
PTM
Having found the BOC in French (which is strange, given the history of France), I am curious what other translations of the BOC are extant?
Search no more, here is the site for you:
http://www.angelfire.com/ny4/djw/concordia.html
Thanks - I've added the link to the sidebar; what a list! I had also noticed that the Lutheran Heritage Foundation has made available a few translations of the BOC - in Russian and a few other languages.
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