The Gospel of Barnabas and Islamic-Christian polemic
- Date of account
- 1947–1969 European scholarship
- Location
- London, Rome and European scholarly networks
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
The Gospel of Barnabas circulated in modern editions as a purportedly ancient account that presents Jesus in ways congenial to Islamic interpretation, including denial of crucifixion in the received text. European scholars debated its language, manuscript history and relationship to medieval Christian and Islamic polemic. It is valuable for comparing pseudepigraphy, translation, confessional use and retrospective claims of antiquity. The surviving witnesses and publication history do not straightforwardly establish an apostolic origin, and claims about a lost original or early Italian text remain controversial.
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