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A mysterious manuscript confiscated by Turkish police suggests it was Judas, not Jesus, who suffered crucifixionANNETTE YOSHIKO REED, RELIGION DISPATCHES
In Amsterdam in 1709, philosopher John Toland set his eyes upon a remarkable manuscriptwhat he described in Nazarenus as a Mahometan (i.e., Muslim) Gospel, never before publicly made known among Christians.
Associated with the apostle Barnabas, the text essentially retold the life of Jesus in terms familiar from the New Testament, but with some major departures. It contended that Jesus denied his divine status; that he had predicted the coming of the prophet Muhammad; and that Judas died in his place on the cross. Combing Christian canon lists and literature, Toland found references to an otherwise unknown gospel under the name of Barnabas, and he concluded that this Gospel of the Mahometans very probably is in great part that same book.
For Toland, this was not just another apocryphon. From this Turkish Gospel being fathrd upon Barnabas, he claimed to have been led to recover the original plan of Christianity as centered on Jewish-Christian beliefs that Jesus did not take away or cancel the Jewish Law in any sense whatsoever.
This, Toland argued, was the very oldest form of Christianity, only it was lost to history when converts from the Gentiles did almost wholly subvert it. On the basis of the Gospel of Barnabas, Toland characterized the most ancient Christianity as harmonious with Islam as well: its account of Jesus, after all, was...
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“Muslim gospel” excites “Da Vinci Code” conspiracists (Original Post)
DonViejo
May 2014
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It seems to be available online and appeaers to be quite long. Inspection of the text
struggle4progress
May 2014
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Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)1. Barnum, not Barnabus. nt.
struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)2. It seems to be available online and appeaers to be quite long. Inspection of the text
suggests it incorporates an attempt to stitch together large portions lifted from the other gospels into a smooth narrative, though with various twists and much additional material, such as the following from Chapter 39:
... Then God gave to the first man upon his thumbs that writing; upon the thumb-nail of the right hand it said: "There is only one God," and upon the thumb-nail of the left it said: "Mohammed is messenger of God" ...
The natural guess is that the text is much more recent than it purports to be, especially as the only versions ever seen in modern times were written in Italian and in Spanish