20-10-2026, 08:28 PM
(20-10-2026, 02:45 AM)Jorge_Stolfi wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It is "pseudoepigraphic",The Gospel of Barnabas has discrepancies with the Bible and is not up-to-date information for it. D.E. It was not written by Barnabas or just a man who knows the Bible. It was written by a Muslim in the 15th century.
The childhood gospel of Thomas, for example, seems a little more "authentic" in comparison (. The text was apparently known among Christians, with two Greek and several Latin versions known. The only thing is that Thomas was not the author... but he knew the Bible, because we have an interesting coincidence with the gospel of Luke - Finding in the Temple.
On what basis do I consider the Gospel of Barnabas to be a fake? Well, imagine that you have written your Gospel according to some Magdalene and pass it off as the original. This is a pseudepigraph, because Magdalene is not the author, but it is also a fake, because it is not a historical document.
(20-10-2026, 02:45 AM)Jorge_Stolfi wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.By the way, "genuine apocrypha" is a bit of an oxymoron, depending on what definition you use...Well, which are historically authentic, like, for example, the protoevangelium of James, or the lost Gospel of the Hebrews. Authentic historical documents that at least reflect certain realities of their time or current beliefs...