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Originally Posted by awareness
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?
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Acts says
Barnabas was a nickname which means “Son of Encouragement”. He was a Levite and a Cypriot who was tight with the apostles. He had sold his land and given the money to them. So, when Saul arrived in Jerusalem after his conversion and the believers were all afraid of him, Barnabas recommended him to them, and Saul was accepted by them. All this was a prelude to the missionary journeys of Barnabas and Saul/Paul together. Nothing about a horse. But then there is no mention of a horse in Paul's conversion story either. You can't seem to shake that meme.