Gospel of Barnabas

LC control no.	n 85008983
Descriptive conventions	rda
Uniform title heading	Gospel of Barnabas *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Gospel of St. Barnabas Gospel of Saint Barnabas Évangile de Barnabé Vangelo di Barnaba Vero vangelo di Gesù chiamato Cristo nuovo profeta mandato da Dio al mondo secondo la descrizione di Barnaba suo apostolo Évangile musulman attribué à Barnabé Véritable évangile de Jésus appelé Christ, nouveau prophète envoyé par Dieu au monde, selon le récit de Barnabé, son apôtre
Other standard no.	1361776 Q808428
Form of work	Apocryphal books Apocryphal works
Found in	Durrani, M.H. Forgotten Gospel of St. Barnabas, 1982: t.p. (Gospel of Barnabas) LC data base, 1-15-85 (hdg.: Gospel of Barnabas) LC data base, 2-17-06 (Cirillo, L. Évangile de Barnabé, 1977; "seul manuscrit actuellement connu de l'Évangile de Barnabé, le Cod. 2662 de la Bibliothèque nationale de Vienne") Wikipedia, September 7, 2021 (The Gospel of Barnabas is a book depicting the life of Jesus, which claims to be by the biblical Barnabas who in this work is one of the twelve apostles. Two manuscripts are known to have existed, both dated to the late 16th or early 17th centuries, with one written in Italian and the other in Spanish, its text surviving only in a partial 18th-century transcript. Barnabas is about the same length as the four canonical gospels put together, with the bulk being devoted to an account of Jesus' ministry, much of it harmonized from accounts also found in the canonical gospels. In some key respects, it conforms to the Islamic interpretation of Christian origins and contradicts the New Testament teachings of Christianity. The text of this Gospel is late and is considered pseudepigraphical. However, some academics suggest that it may contain remnants of an earlier, apocryphal work (perhaps Gnostic, Ebionite or Diatessaronic), redacted to bring it more in line with Islamic doctrine. Some Muslims consider the surviving versions as transmitting a suppressed apostolic original in support of the Islamic view of Jesus; Italian manuscript was transferred to the Austrian National Library in Vienna in 1738; has 506 pages, of which the Gospel of Barnabas fills pages 43 to 500, written within red frames in an Islamic style; there are chapter rubrics and margin notes in ungrammatical Arabic; with an occasional Turkish word, and many Turkish syntactical features. Its binding is Turkish, and appears to be original; but the paper has an Italian watermark, which has been dated between 1563 and 1620; No trace is known of the original Spanish manuscript after Dr. Thomas Monkhouse's death in 1792; however a transcript was rediscovered in the 1970s in the University of Sydney's Fisher Library among the books of Charles Nicholson; linguistically, the surviving Spanish text appears later than the surviving Italian text; but this does not necessarily confirm that the underlying Spanish text is secondary) Vatican Library authority file, via WWW, September 7, 2021 (Vangelo di Barnaba; see from: Vero vangelo di Gesù chiamato Cristo nuovo profeta mandato da Dio al mondo secondo la descrizione di Barnaba suo apostolo; see also: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek. (Cod. 2662)) <https://opac.vatlib.it/auth/detail/492_81526> BnF Catalogue général, via WWW, September 7, 2021 (Évangile de Barnabé; rejected forms: Évangile musulman attribué à Barnabé; Véritable évangile de Jésus appelé Christ, nouveau prophète envoyé par Dieu au monde, selon le récit de Barnabé, son apôtre; Gospel of Barnabas; Gospel of Saint Barnabas; Vangelo di Barnaba; Vero vangelo di Gesù chiamato Cristo nuovo profeta mandato da Dio al mondo secondo la descrizione di Barnaba suo apostolo) <https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12008370c>