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The Epistle of Barnabas (Greek: Βαρνάβα Ἐπιστολή) is an early Christian Greek epistle written between AD 70 and AD 135. The complete text is preserved in the 4th-century Codex Sinaiticus, where it appears at the end of the New Testament, following the Book of Revelation and before the Shepherd of Hermas.
The Gospel of Barnabas is dated from the 14th [7] to the 17th centuries, [6]:57 too late to have been written by the biblical Barnabas (fl. 1st century CE). [8]:3 It is one of three extant works bearing his name, along with the Epistle of Barnabas and the Acts of Barnabas.
The Epistle of Barnabas, written between 96 and 135, quotes from Galatians. [79] Clement of Alexandria (c. 150-215 AD) quotes all the books of the New Testament with the exception of Philemon, James, 2 Peter, and 2 and 3 John. [80] The earliest extant canon containing Paul's letters is from the 2nd century:
Barnabas healing the sick by Paolo Veronese, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen.. The Acts of Barnabas is a non-canonical pseudepigraphical Christian work that claims to identify its author as John Mark, the companion of Paul the Apostle, as if writing an account of Barnabas, the Cypriot Jew who was a member of the earliest church of Jerusalem; through the services of Barnabas, the convert Saul ...
He is also traditionally associated with the Epistle of Barnabas, although some modern scholars think it more likely that the epistle was written in Alexandria in the 130s. The 5th century Decretum Gelasianum includes a Gospel of Barnabas amongst works condemned as apocryphal; but no certain text or quotation from this work has been identified.
Barnabas, Epistle of. The Epistle of Barnabas was written in Greek between AD 70 and 132. The work was attributed to Barnabas , the companion of Paul the Apostle , by Clement of Alexandria (c. 150 – c. 215) and Origen (c. 184 – c. 253).
It was written by an otherwise unknown scribe named Leo, who dated it 1056. The codex contains the Didache, the Epistle of Barnabas, the First Epistle of Clement and the Second Epistle of Clement, the long version of the letters of Ignatius of Antioch and a list of books of the Hebrew Bible.
The Epistle of Barnabas 14.3-4 claimed the tablets of the covenant were destroyed at Sinai and that Israel had no covenant with God. [49] The Apostolic Fathers use Trinitarian language, such as that written by Clement: "Have we not one God and one Christ and one Spirit of grace, the Spirit that has been poured out on us?"