Paget, James Carleton
The Epistle of Barnabas

Outlook and Background.

Introduction to the Epistle of Barnabas. - Barnabas and his Sources. - The Context of Barnabas' Theology in Judaism and Christianity. - The Epistle of Barnabas is an important piece of early Christian literature which nearly found its way into the New Testament. In a detailed study, the author has undertaken to look again at the epistle's outlook and background. Against the contention of other studies, which have claimed that the epistle's author is simply the inept regurgitator of pre-existent sources, James Carleton Paget argues that Barnabas, while having access to sources of various kinds, has used these to produce the type of theology we find in his epistle. In so doing, Paget also places Barnabas in the context of early Christian debates about scripture and Judaism. XI,319 Seiten, broschiert (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. 2. Reihe; Vol. 64/Mohr Siebeck 1994)