Das Neue Testament in Gotischer Sprache

Stutz, Elfriede

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“…29 The Gothic Codex Argenteus has especially close ties to the Codex Brixianus, as witnessed not only by their identical script, but also by numerous linguistic similarities (Kauffmann 1900;Burkitt 1900;Streitberg 1971, xlii-xliv;Hunter 1969, 349). 30 The Gothic Codex Ambrosianus, from which the example from Timothy is drawn, appears to have an especially strong affinity to the Latin tradition of the west (Friedrichsen 1939;Stutz 1972). In fact, it is in the letters to the Colossians, 1Timothy, and 2Timothy that the largest preponderance of Latin influences occur among the Epistles (Friedrichsen 1939, 181).…”

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The sacral stamp of Greek: Periphrastic constructions in New Testament translations of Latin, Gothic, and Old Church Slavonic

Drinka¹

2011

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Among the sociolinguistc forces at work in the languages of the world, religious affiliation and the accompanying reverence for the symbols of that affiliation must rank among the most powerful. Religious texts serve as repositories of cultural tradition and become, for their followers, reliquaries of the very word of God. Besides the conservatizing, archaizing pressures which often grow up within a religious tradition, these texts also act as conduits for cultural and linguistic innovation as they spread, through transmission and translation, to surrounding populations. The New Testament (NT) represents just such a cultural conduit, providing not only a blueprint for Christian social behavior but also a pattern for Christian linguistic expression, providing a new lexicon, a special syntax, a style of its own, simple and spare. It was this style, these lexical and syntactic patterns, which came to be imbued with social value to connote membership in the Christian community, and which came to be imitated, sometimes subtly, sometimes blatantly, by translators of the New Testament.

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The sacral stamp of Greek: Periphrastic constructions in New Testament translations of Latin, Gothic, and Old Church Slavonic

Drinka¹

2011

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Greekἀρχιερεύςin Gothic translation

Ratkus

2018

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One of the most remarkable examples of variation in the Gothic Bible is the translation of the Greek compound ἀρχιερεύς ‘chief priest’, accorded as many as seven different Gothic renderings. By examining the distribution of the Gothic examples and the contexts in which they occur, this paper challenges the traditional assumptions on the variation and argues that the variants are due to the exegetical and creative inputs of the translator. It is improbable that the variation was brought about under the influence of pre-Vulgate Latin and unlikely that the different renderings were introduced by putative post-Wulfilian revisers of the Gothic text. The findings call into question the traditional narrative of Wulfila’s single-handed translation of the Bible into Gothic.

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The (Non‐)Existence of the Middle Voice in Gothic: In Search of a Mirage

Ratkus

2020

Trans of the Philol Soc

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Gothic is unique among the Germanic languages in that it alone preserves Indo‐European mediopassive morphology with which it realises the passive voice in part of its verb paradigm. In an effort to dispel any misconceptions regarding the existence of a middle value allegedly realised by these synthetic passive verbs in Gothic, in this article I re‐examine the evidence discussed by Kleyner (2019). By bringing together a consistent application of criteria to the discussion of voice as a syntactic category and a consideration of the broader context of the evidence in question, as well as examining the relevant contrasts in attested Gothic, I show that all of the alleged examples of the middle voice are simple passives. Additionally, I discuss the properties of Gothic periphrastic passives and argue that the Gothic translators' motivations for using passive constructions to render Greek actives oscillate between native linguistic constraints and the need to convey a transparent and intelligible message. More broadly, I address a range of problems within the domain of methodology in comparative Gothic studies.

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Das Neue Testament in Gotischer Sprache

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The sacral stamp of Greek: Periphrastic constructions in New Testament translations of Latin, Gothic, and Old Church Slavonic

The sacral stamp of Greek: Periphrastic constructions in New Testament translations of Latin, Gothic, and Old Church Slavonic

Greekἀρχιερεύςin Gothic translation

The (Non‐)Existence of the Middle Voice in Gothic: In Search of a Mirage

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