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This article deals with an issue of the text-type of Gothic New Testamentversions. Modern scholarship of biblical textual criticism has a consensuson this issue, that is to say, the Vorlage(n) of Gothic New Testament versionshas(have) the early Byzantine text-type(e.g. B.M. Metzger, K. Aland and B. Aland, and P.W. Comfort). However, they do not provide us with anydetailed evidence for the claim. Thus, most students of textual criticismhave no choice other than just accepting it or agreeing with it even thoughthere is no scholarly evaluation. Of course, there is no reason to ignore ordeny the suggestion of eminent textual critics, but it would be proper to askfor more detailed explanations. Besides, as far as I am concerned, suchconsensus seems to be uncritically accepted because of the personal historyof the bishop of the Gothlands, i.e. Ulfilas/Wulfila(311-383 C.E.). He hadgrown up and been educated at Constantinople in Minor Asia, from whichthe Byzantine text-type is supposed to have been originated. Both the authoritativescholarship of great textual critics and the supposition from Ulfilasbackground sometimes compelled students to agree with this consensus. Insuch a background, I tried to review such a consensus with questions: ifyes, how, and, if not, in what manner. For this, I tried to compareGreek texts(NA28[a representative of the Alexandrian text type]and BYZ[one of the Byzantine/Majority text type]) and Gothic Galatians and analyse itsresults. From this, I could get to know Gothic New Testament versions(especially,Galatians) do not simply follow the early Byzantine text. Instead, their textcontains various readings supported by diverse text types such as theAlexandrian text-type and the Western text-type. This result, above all,reveals that the modern consensus does not reflect a reality of Gothic NewTestament versions. In addition, what I want to point out is that GothicGalatians follows the Western text-type when it departs from both NA28and BYZ. This carefully leads us to a suggestion that the Vorlage(n) ofGothic New Testament versions is likely to have the Western text-type.
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Gothic Language, Gothic New Testament, Gothic Galatians, Textual Criticism, Greek Language
