Epistle of Barnabas

Barnabas book description Although the work is not gnostic in a theological sense, the author, who considers himself to be a teacher to the unidentified audience to which he writes, intends to impart to his readers the perfect gnosis (knowledge), that they may perceive that the Christians are the only true covenant people, and that the Jewish people had never been in a covenant with God. His polemics are, above all, directed against Judaizing Christians . In no other writing of that early t...