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The Skeireins (; ) is the longest and most important monument of the Gothic language after Ulfilas' version of the Bible. It consists of eight fragments of a commentary on the Gospel of John which is commonly held to have originally extended over seventy-eight parchment leaves. It owes its title to the 19th-century German scholar Hans Ferdinand Massmann, who was the first to issue a comprehensive and correct edition of it: "Skeireins" means "explanation" in Gothic. The manuscript containing the Skeireins text is a palimpsest. Currently it is housed at the Vatican Library (Vat. lat. 5750) in Rome. There are conflicting views on whether the ''Skeireins'' was written directly in Gothic by a native speaker or whether it was a translation from a Greek original. Schäferdiek (1981)〔Schäferdiek, Knut (1981). ‘Die Fragmente der “Skeireins” und der Johanneskommentar des Theodor von Herakleia’, ''Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur'' 110: 175–93.()〕 observes striking similarities between the Gothic of the ''Skeireins'' and the Greek of Theodore of Heraclea's commentary on the Gospel of John. == See also == * Gothic Bible * Gothic language * Codex Carolinus 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Skeireins」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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