The Epistle of Barnabas
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Barnabas (Epistle of)
Barnabas (Epistle of)
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The Epistle of Barnabas is an early Christian writing, likely composed around the early second century and associated with Alexandria, though its real author is unknown and it is not the work of the apostle Barnabas. It interprets the Hebrew Scriptures allegorically, arguing that they point to Christ, and offers moral teaching through the imagery of the "Two Ways." Counted among the Apostolic Fathers, it sheds important light on early Christian use of the Old Testament.
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Associated with Alexandria.
Alexandria in this era
Under Roman imperial rule, Alexandria hosted the Catechetical School (Didascaleion), where Clement and then Origen turned the city into early Christianity's foremost theological workshop, pioneering allegorical Scripture interpretation and systematic theology in the late 2nd and early 3rd centuries.
In Alexandria at the same time
Hecataeus of Abdera, Herophilus of Chalcedon, Euclid, Lycophron, Callimachus, Erasistratus of Ceos