Excerpt from Contributions Toward a History of Arabico-Gothic Culture, Vol. 2

The present volume contains the Prolegomena to a work on the Arabic element in the Germanic languages which is in preparation. It attempts to remove the rubbish of ages which has accumulated in palaeography, Bible criticism, history, and philology and which has been hiding the truth underneath it.

The first chapter clears up the mystery of the Letter to the Goths, heretofore ascribed without a shadow of a doubt to Jerome. To accomplish this task successfully it became necessary to investigate Jerome's technique in his translations of the Psalter and his habit of quoting from the Bible. The result of this investigation appears in the second chapter. It also had to be shown that Carolingian scholarship indulged without a blush in plagiarism and forgery based on Jerome's text, and this was shown in the procedure of one of the best men of his time, Paschasius Radbertus.

The fourth chapter deals with the important subject of the Western or Syrio-Latin texts of the Gospels, and it is shown that no Western rite had ever existed, that the texts ascribed to that rite and to the fourth and fifth centuries were all in reality written in the eighth and ninth centuries, and that their Syriacism was due to the Syrio-Arabic influence upon Spanish scholarship as developed in France. Here I touch on but a very small amount of the material available to me. A fuller treatment must be left to a host of prospective Ph.D's, who can follow out ad libitum my discovery and suggestion of method.

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