Epistle of Barnabas
Anonymous
Chapter 3
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 III.—The fasts of the Jews are not true fasts, nor acceptable to God.
He says then to them again concerning these things,