Coptic Pope denounces 'Gospel of Barnabas'
June 25, 2015
Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II has denounced the “Gospel of Barnabas,” a document discovered in 2012, as a fraud, the Fides news service reports.
The Egyptian prelate said that the “Gospel of Barnabas” contains numerous historical and geographical errors, exposing the document as “the work of a forger.”
The document, discovered in Ankara, was promoted by some Turkish officials as the work of St. Barnabas. The work is apparently designed to advance the Islamic understanding of the life of Christ, denying the divinity of Jesus and claiming that Jesus foretold the coming of Mohammad.
The “Gospel of Barnabas”-- in the version discovered in 2012-- contains a number of anachronisms that suggest the document was actually written at least several centuries after the time of Christ.
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