Editing Barnabas (section)

== Alleged writings ==
[[Tertullian]] and other Western writers regard Barnabas as the author of the [[Letter to the Hebrews]]. This may have been the Roman tradition—which Tertullian usually follows—and in Rome the epistle may have had its first readers. Modern biblical scholarship considers its authorship unknown, though Barnabas amongst others has been proposed as potential authors.<ref>Mitchell, Alan C. ''Hebrews'' (Liturgical Press, 2007) p. 6.</ref>

"[[Photios I of Constantinople|Photius]] of the ninth century, refers to some in his day who were uncertain whether the Acts was written by Clement of Rome, Barnabas, or Luke. Yet Photius is certain that the work must be ascribed to Luke."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=IcwSvPYSpvkC&pg=PA7 ''Commentary on the Acts''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140618000902/http://books.google.com/books?id=IcwSvPYSpvkC&pg=PA7 |date=2014-06-18 }} Edwin Wilbur Rice, 1900, p.7. Adolf Harnack mistakenly wrote that Photius believed Barnabas was the author in the 1908 Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Volume 1, p. 487</ref>

He is also traditionally associated with the [[Epistle of Barnabas]], although some modern scholars think it more likely that the epistle was written in Alexandria in the 130s.

The 5th century ''[[Decretum Gelasianum]]'' includes a ''Gospel of Barnabas'' amongst works condemned as [[apocrypha]]l; but no certain text or quotation from this work has been identified.

Another book using that same title, the [[Gospel of Barnabas]], survives in two post-medieval manuscripts in Italian and Spanish.<ref>Compare [[T. Zahn]], ''Geschichte des neutestamentlichen Kanons,'' ii, 292, Leipsig, 1890.</ref> Contrary to the canonical Christian [[Gospel]]s, and in accordance with the [[Islamic view of Jesus]], this later Gospel of Barnabas states that [[Jesus]] was not the [[son of God]], but a [[Prophets of Islam|prophet]] and messenger.