Talk:Barnabas

message: I have removed a comment on the alleged reason for Paul wanting to rid gentiles of the circumcision requirement (, realizing that Christianity would never reach large numbers of gentiles if circumcision were required.Durant, Will. Caesar and Christ. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1972), since this represents speculative inference on Pauls hidden reasons for having this view, he himself would probably have given as reason for this his own arguing in his letters. The comments purpose is to create a bias towards Pauls driving force, and is as such not neutral. 
jsvens 10:00, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
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message: Author of the article: “His Hellenic Jewish parents called him…”
Where did you get that from? There was nothing “Hellenic” about him!
Acts 4:36, from multiple versions of the bible…
http://bible.cc/acts/4-36.htm
… Barnabas was 100% Cypriot.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.228.220.49 (talk) 01:01, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Hellenic"??? 

message: I am Wikifying this article and it's a big job. Some copy editing of parts appears necessary too.
I agree that this article is pretty polemical in tone. Needs a NPOV. (If I ever get time...).
Peter Hitchmough 07:46, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikifying in progress 

message: In this article, as well as others, the name Joses (Yoses) is presented as being the Aramaic version of Joseph (Yousef), but it is unlikely that the Aramaic version had an /s/ at its end, this being rather the Greek version of the Aramaic version. I think there are modern Israeli persons having the name Yosi which  could be more likely the Aramaic version.
Like wise, a proposed explanation for the etymology of Barnabas is that it is comprised of Aramaic Bar (=son of) and Nabas (==prophet). Nabas seems also to be the Graecised version of Naba (as in Arabic Nabi). --Alif 13:42, 17 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Joses and Nabas 

message: The article claimed that the scholarly consensus is that Luke wrote Luke and Acts.  I think there is unquestionably a scholarly consensus that the author of Luke and Acts is the same person.  I question whether there is a scholarly consensus that Luke wrote Luke.  At least it is disputed area.  I hesitated to make a change in this article since I am sure others are more versed in the topic than I am. I won't object to a reversion if it is felt that is desirable.  Thanks
Davefoc 05:03, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Luke as the author of Luke and Acts 

message: I just made the foolish error of restoring version 1 of a doubly entered vandalism: not cautious enoiugh in using the rollback feature. --Wetman 16:04, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Double vandalisms

message: Is there an original Greek copy of his writings? Surely we ought not to settle for a mere Latin translation in this day and age? (Weirpwoer 04:17, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Original Greek MSS?

message: I changed the Greek form of Barnabas' name from the incorrect Classical Greek form to the dialect actually used by the common people of the eastern Roman Empire, the Koine, or ().
Koine incorporated so many foreign elements and "corruptions" of Classical Greek vocabulary and grammar that it was a very different language from the rareified Classical Greek used by scholars and the ruling classes of the Empire. To be considered educated in the late Republic and Empire, a Roman man had to speak Classical Greek as fluently as he spoke Latin. 
It is somewhat analogous to the situation today: people all over the world learn English in order to be able to communicate with each foreingers.  And in polyglot societies like India, for example, speaking English is absolutely necessary in order to move ahead in that country--as well as maintain civil peace.  Koine and English avoid(ed) linguistic chauvinism, because it is completely foreign to the sub-continent much as Latin was to the peoples of the east (roughly all of the Empire east and southeast of Italy.
PainMan (talk) 01:23, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changed version of name from Classical Greek to Koine 

message: The article includes this sentence:
"Martyred at Salamis, Cyprus, in AD 61 [2], he is traditionally identified as the founder of the Cypriot Church."
It is stated in many Internet articles on Barnabas that he was stoned to death in Salonica (presumably the city in Greece).  There are also references to the fact that there is a legend that he was martyred in Salamis, Cyprus on the internet and that his tomb is near the Monastery of St. Barnabas.  However, with regard to all these claims the Catholic Encyclopedia says:
"Various traditions represent him as the first Bishop of Milan, as preaching at Alexandria and at Rome, whose fourth (?) bishop, St. Clement, he is said to have converted, and as having suffered martyrdom in Cyprus. The traditions are all late and untrustworthy."
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02300a.htm
The article provides The Oxford dictionary of the Christian church as the source of its claim.  Even if this source is exactly in agreement with the article, it is not a reliable source for something like this.  The reliable source is the basis for the claim in The Oxford dictionary of the Christian church and that is not provided.
It does not appear that there is reliable information as to how or when Barnabas died and unless that kind of information can be found the article should be amended so that information about the death of Barnabas is identified as based on traditions as the Catholic Encyclopedia says.--Davefoc (talk) 18:38, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Martyrdom? 

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message: While  significantly calls both Saint Paul and Saint Barnabas with the Greek word for Apostle,  reveals Paul's temporary blindness was healed by the disciple Ananias of Damascus, who subsequently baptized the Apostle. 
To heal Paul's blindness, Ananias of Damascus had to have been previously baptized in water and Holy Spirit God. After the Baptism of Paul -and possibly of Barnabas by of hand of Paul himself- both of them could be called with the Greek word for the Apostles. 
Levite primogenites were destinated to the Levite priesthood. We aren't acknowledged if the Cypriot Levite Barnabas () was a baptized in the sole water, according to the Jewish use, or if he was a primogenite; but, if this is so, not healing Paul's blindness, he would have implicitly admitted the divine grace of the Baptism in water and Holy Spirit God was higher than the Lewite priesthood. Infact, the Apotolic Church was instituted with the Solemnity of Pentecost and the descent of the Holy Spirit God upon the Twelve. Levites whi were not baptized didn't have it.
This argument may be corroborated by further sources and eventually cited within the WP article. Theologian81sp (talk) 17:12, 8 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Acts 14:14 and Act 9:12 

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