Editing Ulfilas (section)

== Translation of the Bible <!--Note: Some of these citations apply also to other sentences in their respective section, especially preceding ones.--> ==
The traditional date for Ulfila's completion of religious texts for the Goths of Moesia is around 369.{{Sfn|Miller|2019|p=8}} [[Cassiodorus]] attests that he "invented the Gothic letters and translated the divine scriptures into that language".{{Sfn|Miller|2019|p=8}} [[Walafrid Strabo]] wrote that "(a team of) scholars translated the sacred books".{{Sfn|Miller|2019|p=8}} There is no primary evidence to support the traditional assumption that Ulfila translated the Bible into Gothic; the brief mentions of Ulfila as a translator in the works of ancient historians count only as circumstantial evidence.<ref name=":0" /> Authoritative scholarly opinion, based on rigorous analysis of the linguistic properties of the Gothic text, holds that the [[Gothic Bible]] was authored by a group of translators.{{sfn|Miller|2019|pp=13–18}}<ref name=":1" /> This does not rule out the possibility that, while overseeing the translation of the Bible, Ulfila was one of several translators.<ref name=":0" />