Where could I get a copy of the "Gospel of Barnabas" in English?

Question

I have read a lot about the "Gospel of Barnabas" could anyone enlighten me about this Gospel and its historic background.

Answer 1

CAN BE PURCHASED AT

http://www.amazon.com/Gospel-Barbanas-Londsdale-Ragg/dp/8185738424/sr=8-1/qid=1170726001/ref=sr_1_1/102-7722653-3180940?ie=UTF8&s=books


The Gospel of Barnabas is a work purporting to be a depiction of the life of Jesus by his disciple Barnabas. The two earliest known manuscripts have been dated to the late sixteenth century, and are written respectively in Italian and in Spanish; although the Spanish version survives now only in an eighteenth century copy. It is about the same length as the four canonical gospels put together (the Italian manuscript has 222 chapters); with the bulk being devoted to an account of Jesus' ministry, much of it harmonised from accounts also found in the canonical gospels. In some, but not all, respects it conforms to the Islamic interpretation of Christian origins; and consequently its authorship and textual history remain the subject of continued controversy.

The Gospel is considered by the majority of academics (including Christians and some Muslims) to be late and pseudepigraphical; however, some academics suggest that it may contain some remnants of an earlier apocryphal work edited to conform to Islam, perhaps Gnostic (Cirillo, Ragg) or Ebionite (Pines) or Diatessaronic (Joosten); and some Muslim scholars consider the surviving versions as transmitting a suppressed apostolic original. Some Islamic organizations cite it in support of the Islamic view of Jesus; Islamic views are treated below.

Answer 2

Here is a few exerpts from a book I'm reading. "The Letter Of Barnabas": The letter of Barnabas was one of the most important writings for proto-orthodox Christianity... The book has traditionally been called an epistle, even though its opening contains only a greeting, with neither its author nor its recipients named... The book in fact was written long after Barnabas himself would have died: It mentions, for example, the destruction of the temple (70 AD) and refers to the possibility of its soon being rebuilt. This possibility was very much alive in the early decades of the second century, but that much evaporated when the emperor Hadrian had a roman shrine constructed over the temples ruins... Most scholars have concluded that, on these grounds, that the book was written around 130 AD.

Answer 3

Check the public library.
The Gospel of Barnabas was written in the 1600's and it fits well with the Islamic view of Jesus.

Answer 4

umm yeah i got it booked marked, it also has all the gnostic books that where removed from the KJ version. really good read.

Shines some lite on who jesus really was.

Its hard to navigate due to some shitty restructure of the site. They used to just have the books in alphabetic order, now you got hunt through pages.

Answer 5

If your faith is true, you only have to follow the Holy Qur'an, and no other scriptures which would only lead you astray!

Answer 6

Why?

I rank it right up there with the harry potter books.

Answer 7

There is none.

Answer 8

http://www.amazon.com/s/103-0030713-7923878?ie=UTF8&tag=mozilla-20&index=blended&link%5Fcode=qs&field-keywords=gospel%20of%20barnabas%20&sourceid=Mozilla-search