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A Study on the Text-type of Gothic New Testament Versions -Galatians as a Case Study-

This article deals with an issue of the text-type of Gothic New Testament versions. Modern scholarship of biblical textual criticism has a consensus on this issue, that is to say, the Vorlage(n) of Gothic New Testament versions has(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 any detailed evidence for the claim. Thus, most students of textual criticism have no choice other than just accepting it or agreeing with it even though there is no scholarly evaluation. Of course, there is no reason to ignore or deny the suggestion of eminent textual critics, but it would be proper to ask for more detailed explanations. Besides, as far as I am concerned, such consensus seems to be uncritically accepted because of the personal history of "the bishop of the Gothlands,"i.e. Ulfilas/Wulfila(311-383 C.E.). He had grown up and been educated at Constantinople in Minor Asia, from which the Byzantine text-type is supposed to have been originated. Both the authoritative scholarship of great textual critics and the supposition from Ulfilas' background sometimes compelled students to agree with this consensus. In such a background, I tried to review such a consensus with questions: if yes, "how,"and, if not, "in what manner."For this, I tried to compare Greek texts(NA28[a representative of the Alexandrian text type]and BYZ[one of the Byzantine/Majority text type]) and Gothic Galatians and analyse its results. From this, I could get to know Gothic New Testament versions(especially, Galatians) do not simply follow the early Byzantine text. Instead, their text contains various readings supported by diverse text types such as the Alexandrian text-type and the Western text-type. This result, above all, reveals that the modern consensus does not reflect a reality of Gothic New Testament versions. In addition, what I want to point out is that Gothic Galatians follows the Western text-type when it departs from both NA28 and BYZ. This carefully leads us to a suggestion that the Vorlage(n) of Gothic New Testament versions is likely to have the Western text-type.