Library/New Testament apocrypha
Epistle of Barnabas
The two ways, a fierce supersession, and a claim that the six days of creation are six thousand years. Codex Sinaiticus kept it. The Watchers are not its subject; the calendar of the world is.
- Status
- Apostolic father
- Date
- c. 70–130 CE
- Languages
- Greek
- Setting
- A Christian reading of the Jewish scriptures as allegory
What it contains
- Allegory of Torah
- The two ways
- The millennial week
Why it sits outside most canons
Its hostility to a continuing Judaism and its date kept it out of the final New Testament.
Themes
- Allegory
- Two ways
- Sabbath of history
Passages
Barnabas 15:4
The Lord will make an end of all things in six thousand years, for a day with him is a thousand years.