Publisher: Geneva: Henri Estienne, 1588
Author: Theodore Beza
Theodore Beza (1519–1605), the great French Reformer who succeeded Calvin in Geneva, was an intellectual who produced many literary works. Among his many achievements were his eleven editions of the Greek New Testament. Beza’s text was largely that of Stephanus’ 1551 edition, but he also utilized, though to a very limited degree, both Codex Cantabrigiensis (aka Codex Bezae) and Codex Claromontanus. The first he donated to Cambridge University in 1581, with an accompanying letter that noted that the University would know what to do with such an eccentric manuscript! The second, which he discovered, is now housed at the Bibliotheque nationale in Paris. Beza’s 1598 edition of his Greek New Testament was especially used by the King James translators.
