Recogn Sample Clauses

Recogn. 308 In order for such a redaction to make sense, the redactor must have had good reason to locate Barnabas as an apostolic preacher in Alexandria. Pearson suggested that Barnabas’ preaching in Alexandria could indicate an awareness of the Epistle of Barnabas, “widely held to be of Alexandrian origin.”309 However, we do not actually have any early statement associating the Epistle of Barnabas with Alexandria. The fourth/fifth century Acts of Barnabas has John Mark mentored by Barnabas, not Paul, and it is Barnabas who keeps him until his martyrdom. Mark escapes in an Egyptian boat to Alexandria to found the Alexandrian church.310 The legend was probably used in the struggle of power between the churches, but the connection between Barnabas and Alexandria is clear. To summarise, the cumulative argument suggests Alexandria as the provenance for this work.