Jordanes, the Ostrogoths and Italy as the Promised Land: Are there some parallels between the Getica and the Exodus? Robert Kasperski 2026, Jordanes, the Ostrogoths and Italy as the Promised Land: Are there some parallels between the Getica and the Exodus?, [in] The New Children of Israel: Newcomers in Movement from Constantine to Muhammad and Beyond, ed. Fernando López Sánchez, Marisa Bueno Sánchez, Series: Studia Historica, Volume ...

https://www.academia.edu/179440636/Jordanes_the_Ostrogoths_and_Italy_as_the_Promised_Land_Are_there_some_parallels_between_the_Getica_and_the_Exodus Completed after March 551, the work De origine actibusque Getarum (‘On the Origin and the Deeds of the Goths’, commonly known as Geti ca), written by a mysterious Constantinopolitan author who presents him self to his readers as Jordanes, is often regarded as a narrative patterned on various themes and motifs drawn from the Bible. Although none of the proponents of this view believe that Jordanes modelled the characters of his narrative as a “new Israel,” some scholars argue that the theme of “divine election” and the migration of the Goths from Scandia to Scyth ia and from Pannonia to Italy are inspired by Biblical motifs, particularly the story of the Jews’ exodus from Egypt. Is this really the case?