This same article ends with according to many studies, the gospel attributed to st. The simple folk spoke about it and narrated it to each other, concluded mazza. Barnabas was one of the disciples of jesus christ, and in the gospel of barnabas, it states that christ was never crucified. According to a turkish official, a 1,500yearold ancient leatherbound text, secretly hidden for 12 years, could be an authentic version of the gospel of barnabas. Vatican in shock at new alleged 1500 year manuscript of.
It is quite unlikely that monks could have made such obvious mistakes. Cotterell, the gospel of barnabas, vox evangelica 10 1977. Nineveh is the ancient assyrian capital and is located in presentday north iraq, near mosul. This bible, which contains the gospel of barnabas, is believed to be between 15002000 years old, and was found in turkey. A 1,500 year old gold lettered book alleged to be the gospel of barnabas has surfaced in turkey. A main point of contention for the work is the proclamation within the pages that jesus predicted the coming of mohammad. Jesus predicted coming of muhammad,ahmad is another name of. How uncovered 2,000yearold letters claim jesus was god. Much to the dismay of the vatican, an approximately 1,500 to 2,000 year old bible was found in turkey, in the ethnography museum of ankara. Firstly it seems extremely unlikely that the gospel of barnabas is 1500 years old as the article claims for several reasons.
One says awreta old testament, khdatta new testament, or ktawa qaddeesha holy book. For example, in this book, jesus apparently predicts the coming of muhammad. If the gospel of barnabas had indeed been written by the apostle as it claims, then it should not contain so many egregious errors. A 200yearold bible was recently returned to a church in england with a note from the thief, who stole the holy book 42 years ago and said he wanted to return it to clean his guilty conscience. The author of this article, however, somehow took that to mean that the book itself was 1500 years oldits right in the title. Gospel of barnabas in which jesus predicts coming of. Ertugrul gunay, stated that in line with islamic belief, the gospel of barnabas treats jesus as a human being and not as god. Language experts detected obvious and quite significant errors in.
It is made up of looselytied leather and written in aramaic, the language of israel during the time of jesus christ. Discovered and kept secret in the year 2000, the book contains the gospel of barnabas a disciple of christ which shows that jesus was not crucified, nor was he the son of god, but a prophet. Sep 30, 2012 barnabas bible gospel is once again in news. The book is written in modern currently spoken assyrian and not the ancient aramaic or syriac. He, thus, mixed facts from here and there and his intentions remain. Your question doesnt break it down this way, but there are really three separate issues at stake here. D if the book does contain verses predicting the coming of muhammad, it is no great accomplishment to predict something 870 years after the fact, since muhammad founded islam in 630 a.
It is made up of looselytied leather and written in. A book written in 1500 ad cannot predict something that happened in 630 ad, over 800. Mar 17, 2015 1500 year old bible confirms that jesus christ was not crucifiedfiction. Mar 03, 2015 most media outlets, as well as muslim and christian outlets, lead the story with headlines pronouncing 1500 year old bible predicts the coming of muhammad without any evidence to support this. Where can i find an english translation of the 1500 year. A book being referred to as a bible dating back 1,500 years, written in gold on leather pages and bound in string, was unearthed in turkey in 2000. Some scholars say it is a rewrite of previously existing writings, changed to suit an islamic interpretation of jesus. The earliest of these writings is the epistle of barnabas, dating from the first half. Jesus foresaw prophet mohammads arrival in old bible found. So what is the truth regarding this socalled bible or gospel of barnabas. That right there should suggest something about the intelligence and diligence of the author and the weight of his conclusions. Is the 1500yearold gospel of barnabas found in turkey claiming. You are way behind, the book of barnabas was already known for a long time.
Gospel of barnabas that claims judas was crucified instead. Does a secret bible discovered in a turkish smuggling sting contain the real truth about the identity of jesus christ. Jesus was not crucified it was actually judas on the cross the facts surrounding christianity have been put under the spotlight once again after an. It remains to be seen whether this book is a forgery, or even what kind of book it is. Gospel of barnabas, fact or fiction, bible or fraud. Jesus predicted coming of muhammad,ahmad is another name. Most indicators seem to point to its being a 16 th century ce forgery, although many sources read as if it were much older. Fides news agency reported on friday that tawadros said that the text, written in syriac on animal hide, is a book full of historical and geographical errors, the work of a forger. It has been speculated that this 1,500 year old bible is a copy of the gospel of barnabas. Jun 30, 2014 if the gospel of barnabas had indeed been written by the apostle as it claims, then it should not contain so many egregious errors. The gospel of barnabas hoax much has been written in the past few days, particularly in muslim newspapers, on the discovery of a bible in turkey, a bible that was apparently written in aramaic the language jesus spoke approximately 1,500 years ago. Mar 06, 2012 the 1,500 year old bible and muslim propaganda aina much has been made of the recent discovery in turkey of a bible purported to be written in the aramaic language, 1,500 years ago.
Gospel of barnabas that claims judas was crucified instead of. A 1500 year old gold lettered book alleged to be the gospel of barnabas. Apr 21, 2015 the bible is either referred to as new or old testament, or holy book. The vatican has requested the turkish authorities to examine the 1500 year old book that is said to be the bible of barnabas reportedly seized by it from smugglers in a mediterraneanarea operation. Some get the gospel of barnabas confused with the epistle of barnabas or the acts of barnabas, all the while we dont even know if this book.
Moreover, the find proves that the bible for common people at that time was not just another book, collecting dust on the shelf, but it was alive. Jesus foresaw prophet mohammads arrival in old bible. The gospel of barnabas is a text alleged to be an apocryphal lost gospel from the first or second century ce. Shocking 1500 year old bible says that jesus christ was not crucified must read a 1500 year old bible according to media hoarders, has been seized from a gang of smugglers in a mediterraneanarea operation in which it is revealed that jesus christ was never crucified on the cross as commonly believed. The book is written in modern currently spoken assyrian and. A book written in 1500 ad cannot predict something that happened in 630 ad, over 800 years earlier. Barnabas was written by a european jew in the middle ages. Where can i find an english translation of the 1500 year old.
What was the vaticans response to the newly discovered gospel of. Vatican authorities have called on the turkish government to allow its experts to examine the content of the book, which was discovered and kept secret in turkey in 2000. Given this, since no one has seen the inside of this bible, we cannot be sure if it is in fact a bible. An approximately 1,500 2,000 year old bible found in turkey has left the vatican in shock because it allegedly confirms that jesus christ wasnt crucified as has come to be widely believed. That would seem to be the common sense interpretation. The book was moved by turkish government to one of their museums by way of police escort. Why the gospel of barnabas is a medieval fake catholic. Jesus christ was not crucified according to ancient gospel of barnabas. Commenting on the errors in the book, al bawaba says in another article. The bible is either referred to as new or old testament, or holy book. The 1,500 year old bible and muslim propaganda thoughts.
Aug, 2014 much to the dismay of the vatican, an approx. So no one ever had the thought that making up the story of jesus rising from the dead could have been faked to make jesus seem godlike. The vatican has allegedly issued an official request to examine a 1,500yearold bible that has been held in turkey for the past 12 years. The muslim media, as well as western media outlets, quickly pounced on this, claiming this bible contains verses attributed to jesus. Shocking 1500 year old bible says that jesus christ was. Vatican requests 1,500yearold bible held in turkey.
It is more of a story book that teaches you morals than an actual book of events that happened. May 12, 2014 much to the dismay of the vatican, an approximately 1,500 to 2,000 year old bible was found in turkey, in the ethnography museum of ankara. The bible, which was discovered in 2000 and kept in secret in ankaras ethnography museum, contains the gospel of jesus disciple barnabas. The 1,500 year old bible and muslim propaganda aina much has been made of the recent discovery in turkey of a bible purported to be written in the aramaic language, 1,500 years ago. Muslims love this news because this ancient bible is said to contain the mysterious gospel of barnabas. Reutersstephanie mcgehee coptic patriarch tawadros ii has said that the disputed gospel of barnabas, a document that claims that judas iscariot was crucified in the place of jesus, and. The report states that the gang was charged with smuggling antiquities, illegal excavations. 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 18thcentury transcript. A 200 year old bible was recently returned to a church in england with a note from the thief, who stole the holy book 42 years ago and said he wanted to return it to clean his guilty conscience. The book starts with in the 1500th year of our lord well, as everyone knows, jesus christ was born 2000 years ago. And the contents of this book supposedly destroys the beliefs of christians. The bottom inscription also says the book was written in 1500 a.
The gospel of barnabas is a book depicting the life of jesus, which claims to be by the biblical. Vatican in shock as 1,500yearold bible claims jesus wasn. Numerous historical errors are intertwined in this invented account. The 1,500 year old bible and muslim propaganda posted gmt 2292012. If this is true, then there are some problems that need to be immediately pointed out. Its about the discovery of a supposedly 1500 year old bible. Aug 17, 2015 instead, an inscription in the gospel of barnabas dates the actual bible itself at 1500 ad. According to a turkish official, a 1,500yearold ancient leatherbound text, secretly hidden for 12 years, could be.
But here you go as a rebuttal to your claims a the bible has been transliterated and. A critical view of the 1,500 year old bible and the. This is an enormous error by whoever wrote this book. Barnabas, like his old testament counterpart, wholeheartedly lived for god and sacrificially served his people. Apr 28, 2014 the 1,500 year old bible is a leather book that was recently discovered in turkey and is said to be written in syriac, a dialect of aramaic. The vatican has allegedly issued an official request to examine a 1,500yearold bible that has been held in turkey for the past 12 years, according to a report by national turk, the bible was seized from a gang of smugglers in a mediterraneanarea operation. For example, in this book, jesus apparently predicts the. Gospel of barnabas, a document that claims that judas iscariot was crucified in. Vatican in shock at new alleged 1500 year manuscript of the. There are spelling errors that are immediately noticeable. A bible which is reported to be at least 1500 years old was discovered in turkey and inside it there is a gospel of barnabas. Barnabas appears not to realize that christ and messiah are synonyms, christ khristos being a greek translation of the word messiah. Within this book, barnabas also refers to the apostle paul as an impostor.
Where the gospel of barnabas includes quotations from the old testament. In the name of our lord, this book is written on the hands of the monks of the high monastery in nineveh, in the 1,500th year of our lord. Turkish authorities discovered the text in may 2012 in the building of justice in ankara, and claimed that it is 1,5002,000 years old and was written by st. Nooooo he rose from the dead and this book is fake. Jesus foresaw prophet mohammads arrival in old bible found in turkey published february 27th, 2012 07. There is an internet meme that pops up from time to time claiming that a 1,500 year old version of the gospel of barnabas had been found in turkey and that the vatican has been very. Jan 29, 2012 much to the dismay of the vatican, an approx.
Shocking 1500 year old bible says that jesus christ was not. Apr 03, 2015 a bible which is reported to be at least 1500 years old was discovered in turkey and inside it there is a gospel of barnabas. Pope benedict xvi is claimed to want to see the 1,500yearold book, which many say is the gospel of barnabas, that has been hidden by the turkish state for the last 12 years. A false ancient holy book was found, and contains outrageous claims that speak of jesus being a prophet and a fake crucifixion. Beliefs about jesus vary widely between christians and muslims because their sources differ. Instead, an inscription in the gospel of barnabas dates the actual bible itself at 1500 ad. The vatican is deeply concerned over a 1500yearold bible which was found in turkey and rejects the crucifixion of jesus christ. Feb 29, 2012 the vatican has allegedly issued an official request to examine a 1,500yearold bible that has been held in turkey for the past 12 years, according to a report by national turk, the bible was seized from a gang of smugglers in a mediterraneanarea operation. The 1,500 year old bible is a leather book that was recently discovered in turkey and is said to be written in syriac, a dialect of aramaic. The 1,500 year old bible and muslim propaganda bethnahrin.
So, 1500th year would mean just 500 years back and not 1500 years as most of the news headlines state. Evidence reveals that the gospel of barnabas was most likely written by a fifteenthcentury european who wrote inaccurately about the life of jesus. Jesus was not crucified it was actually judas on the cross the facts surrounding christianity have been put under the spotlight once again after an ancient text resurfaced. Barnabas was written by a european jew in the middle ages who was quite familiar with the quran and the gospels. The report states the gang was charged with smuggling antiquities, illegal. 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. May 04, 2014 b it is more of a story book that teaches you morals than an actual book of events that happened. This rare find is a copy of the gospel of barnabas that has been appraised to. Other than in their respective copyist errors, there appear to be few. The gospel of barnabas which depicts the life of jesus christ, by barnabas who calls himself to be one of the twelve disciples of jesus.
Vatican requests study of 1500 yearold bible found in turkey. These messages spreading heavily through social media, news outlets and other internet platforms. A 200yearold bible was recently returned to a church in england with a. You can see it on line, and read that it is probably a jeueish jewish hoax. Jesus is said to have been born during the rule of pontius pilate, which began after the year 26. For muslims, the implications of the headlines are desirable, that jesus christ is a prophet, just like muhammad, and not the son of god. Gospel of barnabas that claims judas was crucified. Is the 1500yearold gospel of barnabas found in turkey.
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