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Secret £14million Bible in which Jesus Predicts Coming of Prophet Muhammad Unearthed in Turkey

By Daily Mail Reporter

Vatican 'wants to see' 1,500-year-old ancient script

Has been hidden by Turkish state for 12 years

Handwritten in gold-lettered Aramaic

24th February 2012

A secret Bible in which Jesus is believed to predict the coming of the Prophet Muhammad to Earth has sparked serious interest from the Vatican.

Pope Benedict XVI is claimed to want to see the 1,500-year-old book, which many say is the Gospel of Barnabas that has been hidden by the Turkish state for the last 12 years.

The £14million handwritten gold lettered tome, penned in Jesus' native Aramaic language, is said to contain his early teachings and a prediction of the Prophet's coming.

Secret Bible: The 1,500-year-old tome was is said to contain Jesus' early teachings and his prediction of the Prophet's coming

Ancient: The leather-bound text, written on animal hide, was discovered by Turkish police during an anti-smuggling operation in 2000

It was closely guarded until 2010, when it was finally handed over to the Ankara Ethnography Museum, and will soon be put back on public display following a minor restoration.

A photocopy of a single page from the handwritten ancient manuscript is thought to be worth £1.5million.

 Turkish culture and tourism minister Ertugrul Gunay said the book could be an authentic version of the Gospel, which was suppressed by the Christian Church for its strong parallels with the Islamic view of Jesus.

He also said the Vatican had made an official request to see the scripture - a controversial text which Muslims claim is an addition to the original gospels of Mark, Matthew, Luke and John.

In line with Islamic belief, the Gospel treats Jesus as a human being and not a God.

Serious interest: The Vatican, under Pope Benedict XVI, is said to want to see the recently re-discovered Bible

Historic: The £14million handwritten gold lettered tome is penned in Jesus’ native Aramaic language

It rejects the ideas of the Holy Trinity and the Crucifixion and reveals that Jesus predicted the coming of the Prophet Muhammad.

In one version of the gospel, he is said to have told a priest: 'How shall the Messiah be called? Muhammad is his blessed name'.

And in another Jesus denied being the Messiah, claiming that he or she would be Ishmaelite, the term used for an Arab.

Despite the interest in the newly re-discovered book, some believe it is a fake and only dates back to the 16th century.

The oldest copies of the book date back to that time, and are written in Spanish and Italian.

Protestant pastor Ihsan Özbek said it was unlikely to be authentic.

This is because St Barnabas lived in the first century and was one of the Apostles of Jesus, in contrast to this version which is said to come from the fifth or sixth century.

He told the Today Zaman newspaper: 'The copy in Ankara might have been written by one of the followers of St Barnabas.

'Since there is around 500 years in between St Barnabas and the writing of the Bible copy, Muslims may be disappointed to see that this copy does not include things they would like to see.

'It might have no relation with the content of the Gospel of Barnabas.'

Theology professor Ömer Faruk Harman said a scientific scan of the bible may be the only way to reveal how old it really is.

Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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  • Why so hurry? First separate the corrupted and uncorrupted portions of the Bible. Who will do it?

    By rational - 9/27/2012 6:33:30 AM
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  • Hi all(most), one time you are saying all holy scripts are corrupted given to christians,jews and hindus.
    Another time, you are eagerly searching anything we can find about forthcoming of Mohammed.what a hypocritc people you.
    By common - 9/16/2012 11:29:15 AM
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  • Muslims or non-muslims do not have to wait to verify the authenticity of this book found in Turkey. Quran speaks of its authencity by itself. Anyone with commonsense and unbiased mind knows that Quraan is the truth.
    By Jawaid Zahir - 3/1/2012 9:08:51 PM
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  • ...the news will give enough fire power to Islamic supermacist who really dont care anything about scientific authentication of the facts.
    By shamshad Elahee Shams - 3/1/2012 6:24:13 PM
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  • How the Gospel of Barnabas Survived? The following information from the Appendix I of the Book: The Gospel of Barnabas By Lonsdale & Laura Ragg, Publishers : Idara Isha’at –e-Diniyat (P) Ltd. 168/2, Jha House, Hazrat Nizamuddin, New Delhi-110 013 e-mail: sales@idara.com Information re: The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church is from another Brother in faith The Gospel of Barnabas was accepted as a Canonical Gospel in the Churches of Alexandria till 325 A.D. Iranaeus (130-200) wrote in support of pure monotheism and opposed Paul for injecting into Christianity doctrines of the pagan Roman religion and Platonic philosophy. He had quoted extensively from the Gospel of Barnabas in support of his views. This shows that the Gospel of Barnabas was in circulation in the first and second centuries of Christianity. In 325 A.D., the Nicene Council was held, where it was ordered that all original Gospels in Hebrew script should be destroyed. An Edict was issued that anyone in possession of these Gospels will be put to death. In 383 A.D., the Pope secured a copy of the Gospel of Barnabas and kept it in his private library. In the fourth year of Emperor Zeno (478 A.D.), the remains of Barnabas were discovered and there was found on his breast a copy of the Gospel of Barnabas written by his own hand. (Acia Sanctorum Boland Junii Tom II, Pages 422 and 450. Antwerp 1698). The famous Vulgate Bible appears to be based on this Gospel. Pope Sixtus (1585-90) had a friend, Fra Marino. He found the Gospel of Barnabas in the private library of the Pope. Fra Marino was interested because he had read the writings of Iranaeus where Barnabas had been profusely quoted. The Italian manuscript passed through different hands till it reached "a person of great name and authority" in Amsterdam, "who during his life time was often heard to put a high value to this piece". After his death it came in the possession of J.E. Cramer, a Councilor of the King of Prussia. In 1713 Cramer presented this manuscript to the famous connoisseur of books, Prince Eugene of Savoy. In 1738 along with the library of the Prince it found its way into Hofbibliothek in Vienna. There it now rests. Toland, in his "Miscellaneous Works" (published posthumously in 1747), in Vol. I, page 380, mentions that the Gospel of Barnabas was still extant. In Chapter XV he refers to the Glasian Decree of 496 A.D. where "Evangelium Barnabe" is included in the list of forbidden books. Prior to that it had been forbidden by Pope Innocent in 465 A.D. and by the Decree of the Western Churches in 382 A.D. Barnabas is also mentioned in the Stichometry of Nicephorus Serial No. 3, Epistle of Barnabas...Lines 1, 300. Then again in the list of sixty Books • Serial No. 17. Travels and teaching of the Apostles. • Serial No. 18. Epistle of Barnabas. • Serial No. 24. Gospel According to Barnabas. A Greek version of the Gospel of Barnabas is also found in a solitary fragment. The rest is burnt. A photo of the fragment is given below. The Latin text was translated into English by Mr. and Mrs. Ragg and was printed at the Clarendon Press in Oxford. It was published by the Oxford University Press in 1907. This English translation mysteriously disappeared from the market. Two copies of this translation are known to exist, one in the British Museum and the other in the Library of the Congress, Washington. The first edition was from a micro-film copy of the book in the Library of the Congress, Washington, which was received through the courtesy of a friend in U.S.A. 2- The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church asserts: Gospel of Barnabas was declared a rejected book in the Decretum Gelasianum by Pope Gelasius [Pope of Rome 492-96]. According to E. Von Dobschutz, it is a private compilation which was composed in Italy (but not at Rome) in the early sixth century. Mr. Sale in his preface "To the Reader" of his translation of the meanings of the verses of the noble Qur'an says: "… the discoverer of the original M.S., who was a Christian monk called Fra Marino, tells us that having accidentally met with a writing of Irenaeus (among others), wherein Irenaeus spoke against Paul, alleging, for his authority, the Gospel of St. Barnabas, he became exceedingly desirous of finding an existing copy of this Gospel, and that God of His mercy, having made Fra Marino an intimate friend of Pope Sixtus V, (pope 1585-1590), one day, as they were together in the Pope's library, his holiness fell asleep, and the monk, to occupy himself, reaching down for a book to read, the very first he laid his hand on proved to be the very Gospel history that he was seeking. Overjoyed at the discovery, he scrupled not to hide his prize discovery in his sleeve; and, on the Pope's awakening, took to leave of him carrying with him that celestial treasure, by reading of which he became a convert to Muhammedanism" In 478AD, the fourth year of Emperor Zeno, the remains of Barnabas were discovered and there was found on his breast a copy of the Gospel of Barnabas written by his own hand. Acia Sanctorum Borland Junii Tom II, pages 422 and 450. Antwerp 1698 (About Emperor Zeno, cross reference to Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno_(emperor) or Constantinople Chronology at http://www.roman-empire.net/constant/zeno-index.html)
    By Mohammed Ali Rizvi - 3/1/2012 5:12:20 PM
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