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Epistle of Barnabas
Also known as Letter of Barnabas, Pseudo-Barnabas
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Early 2nd-century treatise reading the Jewish scriptures allegorically; included in Codex Sinaiticus.
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The Epistle of Barnabas is an early Christian Greek epistle written between 70 and 135 AD. The complete text is preserved in the 4th-century Codex Sinaiticus, where it is positioned at the end of the New Testament, following the Book of Revelation and preceding the Shepherd of Hermas.
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