Gothic and Anglo-Saxon Gospels

The Gothic, Anglo-Saxon, Wycliffe and Tyndale Polyglot of the N.T. Gospels, by J. Bosworth, 1865.

 

Info on the languages: Gothic, Old-, Middle- and Early Modern English.

 

* Gothic is an extinct East Germanic language. Mostly that is known about it is thanks to the Gothic Ulfilas-Bible, made after 348 AD in the region north-east of the river Danube. Ulfilas used the correct Greek manuscripts that were used in that area (near Constantinople). The Gospels used in this book come from the Ulfilas-Bible. The only problem for Bosworth was that he didn’t found all the remaining texts of the Ulfilas already in 1865.

The last speakers of Gothic died in the 18^th century on the Crimea.

 

* Anglo-Saxon is another word for Old-English, the form of English spoken between the 5^th and 12^th century in England. English is a North Sea Germanic language, together with Scottish Lowlands and Frisian. This North Sea Germanic is a separate branch of West Germanic (Dutch, Low German, German, Jiddish and African). These Anglo-Saxon Gospels are from 995 AD.

 

* The Wycliffe Gospels are written in 1389 in a form of English that is called Middle-English, spoken in England between 1200 and 1500. These Gospels come from Wycliffe’s Bible translation.

 

* The Tyndale Gospels are printed in 1526 in Early Modern-English (1500 till 1800). These Gospels come from Tyndale’s N.T. translation. He died a martyrs death for his work for the Lord, when the inquisition killed him in 1536.                       

Gothic and Anglo-Saxon Gospels

 

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