The Skeireins : a neglected text
Abstract
Fragmentary, palimpsest segments survive of a commentary on the Gospel of John written in the 4th or 5th centuries in the Gothic language by an unknown author, dubbed the Skeireins (Gothic ‘explanation’) by its first modern editor. Critical discussion has focused upon whether the text was an original Gothic composition, or a translation from Greek, perhaps from the writings of Theodore of Heracleia. This paper will briefly review this question, but in the main will examine the theology of the work itself, and what the terms and preoccupations of the Gothic text reveal about the situation in which it was written.
Citation
Wolfe , B N 2013 , ' The Skeireins : a neglected text ' , Studia Patristica , vol. 64 , pp. 127-132 .
Publication
Studia Patristica
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0585-542XType
Journal article
Rights
© Peeters Publishers, 2013. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created accepted version manuscript following peer review and as such may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at http://www.peeters-leuven.be/boekoverz.asp?nr=9354
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ISBN: 9789042929975. Papers presented at the Sixteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2011Collections
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