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Who translated the Gothic Bible in about 350 CE?

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The Gothic Bible was translated in the mid-4th century CE by Ulfilas, a Christian bishop and missionary who worked among the Visigothic tribes along the lower Danube.123

Ulfilas is also credited with creating the Gothic alphabet, which he devised primarily from Greek and Latin characters to facilitate his translation work. While he is widely recognized as the principal agent behind this translation, which represents the earliest version of the Bible in a Germanic language, the full extent of his contribution remains a subject of scholarly discussion, as only fragments of the work survive today.134