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For a while, it was a hot topic, whether Wulfia had used the Greek or the
Latin NT as his Vorlage when preparing his Gothic NT. That debate seems to
have been settled - that he used the Greek, but was under the influence of
having read the Latin.

My question is: what did he use as an OT Vorlage? Here he had at least
three major options: Hebrew, LXX, or Latin. (It would be highly unlikely
that he would use a Targum). Has any work been done on this?

The Gothic scriptures have the value that, as early versions, they record
the state of the text at a time from which we don't always have texts in
the original language.

Andrew C. Smith

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