The Gospel of Barnabas

I read excerpts from it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

it's on my list. I don't believe any of it, but it should be interesting. I'd go with socokid's answer.

Another book found in the apocryphal texts. I've read several tomes on others, but not Barnabas.

But then again, if you watch true blood, you'll be told that the first people were vampires, so yea, I can't hold much stock in these out there literary finds.

but hey! barnabas has been around for quite awhile!

A good English copy or a facsimile would tell me its age and the group it came from. Knostics are the big one. They tended to Dump Jesus' Divinity and establish themselves as God like s......

I believe this is it. Here you go http://www.sacred-texts.com/i...

From your link:
a life of Jesus purportedly written by a first-hand observer
I do not think there are any viable scholars that actually think this, however.

but even among scholars there is disagreement as to whether or not some some of the material contained in the book is older.
The disagreement is over whether it is 1500, or 500 years old. Even the wildest predictions have this being written 500 years after Jesus had apparently been around, at the earliest

Maybe I have the wrong guy? He was supposed to have died in AD 61

You may have the right guy, but that book you speak of, which is in the image for this post, is almost certainly a creation from well after Jesus purportedly was alive.

okay

Normally any documentation written after the first century AD is totally dismissed when it comes to biblical accuracy because of the unlikelihood that any one writing it had any first or even second hand experience of the events, this was written in the 16th century! If it had existed before hand we would have some copy of it, or mention of it in another work, this is quite obviously a forgery meant to legitimize the Islamic view of Christianity for their own apolegetics projects.

This guy Barnabus supposedly died in 61 AD

"Barnabas, born Joseph, was an early Christian, one of the earliest Christian disciples in Jerusalem. According to Acts 4:36 Barnabas was a Cypriot Jew. Wikipedia
Born: Cyprus
Died: AD 61, Salamis"

Barnabus indeed lived during this time but there is no evidence that he wrote this document, this document does not get any of the information about the Roman Empire correct (mistaking currency for example and mixing it up with the value of gold much later and seems to have forgotten that the real Barnabus was recorded as being extremely opposed to Jewish style circumcision whereas this document, being Muslim apologetic is for it.

Thank you. If you have anything to add it would be appreciated.

here ,read this
http://www.answering-islam.or...

Thank you.

welcome!

You choices give no room for a nuanced answer. A person should not believe in anything written by humans...instead they should determine whether the texts are useful. The choices are not between believing and establishing it as a fake. The choices are between useful or not.

The Gospel of Barnabas is useful if you wish to show a connection between Mohammed and Jesus....unfortunately the earliest known manuscripts date to 17th century and were ins Spanish and Italian. This suggests the document may have been converted to help convert Spanish and Sicilian Christians to Islam during the Muslim control of these lands. This makes the historical authenticity of the documents questionable...and means historical conclusions about the time of Christ derived from this work should be validated by other sources.

What I really wanted to know is if people believed it was written at that time and if so whether it was considered a reliable source. Thank you.

The Gospel of Barnabas was probably not the "Q" source, since most scholars consider it to be a "sayings" Gospel (a Gospel only composed of a collection of Jesus' sayings) whereas the Gospel of Barnabas is a completely different narrative that differs from that of the Christian orthodoxy.

I forget the total number of Gospels written but only four were chosen.

I have read Thomas' account... entertaining if not slightly annoying, but I haven't not read Barnabas. It wasn't required reading and I was already on overload with the reading requirements just to get through my BA in Religious Ed.

Thank you. Of all the authors that have written about Jesus, The Gospel Barnabas is the only one I have seen that is supposedly written by someone who was alive when Jesus was.

No one knows how many gospels were written, pieces of many exist today. This site claims to have the texts of several:

http://reluctant-messenger.co...

17th century literature? ;-)

I don't know. It was said to have been written by a man who lived at the same time Jesus was supposed to have lived.

I don't really know anything about it.