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# [WHO WERE THE GOTHS AND WHY IS **THE GOTHIC VERSION** OF INTEREST TO TEXTUAL SCHOLARS AND BIBLE TRANSLATORS?](https://christianpublishinghouse.co/2017/04/19/the-gothic-version/)

[April 19, 2017](https://christianpublishinghouse.co/2017/04/19/the-gothic-version/) [Christian Publishing House](https://christianpublishinghouse.co/author/christianpublishers/)

The Goths were a group of loosely allied Germanic tribes, most likely beginning in Scandinavia. In the first few centuries after Jesus Christ’s life and death, they migrated as far south as the Black Sea and the Danube River, to the very outposts of the Roman Empire. The Gothic Bible was the first literary work in any Germanic tongue. Ulfilas (c. 311–383 C.E.) – Bruce Metzger

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The Goths were a group of loosely allied Germanic tribes, most likely beginning in Scandinavia. In the first few centuries after Jesus Christ’s life and death, they migrated as far south as t…