Dictionary of the Biblical Gothic Language

214 Pages·1974·10.402 MB·

by  Brian Thomas Regan

DICTIONARY
of the
BIBLICAL GOTHIC LANGUAGE

DICTIONARY
of the
BIBLICAL GOTHIC
LANGUAGE
by
Brian T. Regan, Ph.D.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION, vii
I: The Headword, ix
II: Phonological and Etymological Identification, x
III: Verb Class Identification, xi
IV: Abbreviations for Parsing, xi
V: The Effect of Prefixes on Listing Arrangement, xi
VI: Names, xiii
VII: Definitions of Specialized Terms used in this Dictionary, xiv
VIII: References to Different Gothic Texts, xv
IX: Abbreviations, xvi
X: Treatment of the English Glosses, xix
XI: Transliteration of the Greek Alphabet, xix
XII: Acknowledgments, xx
XIII: Dedication, xx
The Gothic Alphabet, xxi
DICTIONARY OF THE BIBLICAL GOTHIC LANGUAGE, 1
APPENDIX: THE CLASSICAL SOURCES ON WULFILA
AND ON THE GOTHIC BIBLICAL TRANSLATION, 161
1. The Reports regarding Wulfila.
A. Arian Sources.
1. Auxentius. (GoBbl xiv), 163
2. Philostorgios. (GoBbl xix), 170
B. Athanasian (Orthodox Catholic) Sources.
Greek:
1. Socrates Scholasticus. (GoBbl xx), 171
2. Sozomen. (GoBbl xxi), 173
3. Theodoret. (GoBbl xxiii), 175
Latin:
1. Jordanes. (GoBbl xxiv), 176
2. Isidore of Seville. (GoBbl xxiv), 176
3. Walahfrid Strabo [“The Squinter”]. (GoBbl xxv), 177
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2. The Text of the Gothic Bible and the Original Text Underlying the
Translation (the Vorlage).
A. The Original Text.
I. The Old Testament.
a. ) From the Preface to the Paralipomenon, or Books of
Chronicles, of the Vulgate Old Testament; A.D. 395. (GoBbl
xxxi), 177
b. From Saint Jerome’s Letter to the Gothic Clergymen, Sunja
and Friþila, on Divergencies of Jerome’s Latin Psalter from the
Septuagint; A.D. 403. (GoBbl xxxi-ii), 178
II. The New Testament.
From Saint Jerome’s Preface to the Four Gospels, Addressed to
Pope Damasus; A.D. 383. (GoBbl xxxv), 179
B. The Gothic Text and the “Old Latin” (pre-Jerome) Bible: the
Gospels.
The Preface to the Brixian (modem: “Brescian”) “Old Latin” Text.
(GoBbl xlii), 179
Footnotes to the Appendix, 181
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