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GOSPEL OP BARNABAS

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 409 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GOSPEL OP See also:BARNABAS .—We read in antiquity, e.g. in the Decretum Gelasii, of an apocryphal Gospel of Barnabas (see APOCRYPHAL LITERATURE), but we have no knowledge of its contents. There exists, however, in a single MS. in See also:Italian a longish gospel with this See also:title, written from a See also:Mahommedan standpoint, but probably embodying materials partly Gnostic in See also:character and origin. The Italian MS. was found by the Deist, See also:John See also:Toland, in a private collection at See also:Amsterdam (see his Nazarenus, 1718) ; subsequently it came into the See also:possession of See also:Prince See also:Eugene of See also:Savoy, and finally was obtained with Eugene's library by the imperial library at See also:Vienna. It has been edited, with an See also:English See also:translation (1907) by (Rev.) See also:Lonsdale and Laura Ragg, who hold that it was the See also:work of a See also:Christian renegade to Mahommedanism about the 13th-16th See also:century. See also preliminary See also:notice in the See also:Journal of Theol. Studies, vi. 424 if. The old view held by Toland and others that the Italian was a translation from the Arabic is demonstrably wrong. The Arabic marginal notes are apparently partly pious ejaculations, partly notes for the aid of Arabic students. The work is highly imaginative and often See also:grotesque, but it is pervaded by an unusually high ethical See also:enthusiasm. (J. V.

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