Epistle of Barnabas
Anonymous
Chapter 1
About this work
An anonymous Christian interpretation of Israel’s Scriptures that contrasts two ways of life and argues for a spiritual reading of covenant, commandments, worship, and biblical history.
- Author
- Anonymous
- Traditional attribution
- Barnabas, companion of Paul
- Date
- c. AD 80–120
- Origin
- Alexandria (often proposed)
- Genre
- Theological Treatise
Traditionally connected with Barnabas, but generally not regarded as written by Paul’s companion.
Chapter I.—After the salutation, the writer declares that he would communicate to his brethren something of that which he had himself received.
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