The Internet Archive has PDF scans openly available for each of the first three volumes of Hermann Strack and Paul Billerbeck’s Kommentar zum Neuen Testament aus Talmud und Midrasch, 6 vols. (München: Beck, 1922–1961):1
In addition, there is also a combined PDF that includes vols. 1–3 and2
Each of the files is reasonably large (75.7–134 MB). So, they may take some time to load on slower connections or browsers.
Header image supplied by Internet Archive. ↩
Special thanks to Ronald van der Bergh for bringing this combined PDF to my attention in his comment below. ↩
I believe that the remaining volumes—essays and an index—are still under copyright.
Okay. I was wondering if that might’ve been the case and the reason they don’t also seem to be available openly in PDFs. Thanks so much.
Hi David,
In the meantime, a S-B that includes the two parts of vol 4 have become available on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/kommentarzumneue00herm/page/n3639. It seems that volumes 5 and 6 are still not available.
I should also point out that the first three volumes are available for Logos Bible Software (which will make it easier to search): https://www.logos.com/product/30802/kommentar-zum-neuen-testament-aus-talmud-und-midrasch and Lexham Press is working on an English translation (again of the first three volumes) https://www.logos.com/product/30801/commentary-on-the-new-testament-from-the-talmud-and-midrash
Thanks so much, Ronald. That 4-vol. version is a great find, and I’ve updated the post above to include this, with thanks to you. 🙂
Thanks too for the reminder about the Logos versions. Sad that the German version currently only comes with German base packages. (I bought into Logos 8 in the “standard” line.) Still, maybe I’ll end up springing for one of those at some point.
Thanks, again for the helpful pointers to these resources!
Thanx for posting this great stuff!
Too bad we all don’t speak German!
Blessings! … Chris
Thanks, Chris. Yes, it definitely would be nice for there not to be so much of a language barrier sometimes.
All the best,
David
How can I get this in an English version?
So far as I’m aware, it’s just available in German currently. But Logos is working on an English translation.