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Originally Posted by zeek
That's a bit too vague don't you think? My reading supports the theory attributed to Burkett in the Wikipedia entry, i. e., that Luke-Acts is an attempt to explain why the Messiah that was promised to the Jews came to have an overwhelmingly Gentile Church. And the answer is that the Jews predominantly rejected Christ and the gospel. So the book of Acts legitimates the turn to the Gentiles in the name of the Holy Spirit.
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And the Epistle of Barnabas, written circa around the gospel of John, and prolly before Acts, makes a clean break between the Judaizers and the gentile church. Prof. Bart Ehrman, for example, says, that the Epistle of Barnabas was the most anti-Jewish writing during that time.
It's prolly not written by the companion of Paul, but still reflects what the gentile church was thinking by the end of the first century.
And who's Barnabas? Was he knocked off his horse?