The '''Epistle of Barnabas''' is attributed to the highly intelligent early disciple [[Barnabas]], a [[Hellenized]] [[Jew]], who was for a while a travel companion of [[Paul]] until they permanently parted ways due to a "sharp disagreement" {{bibleref|Acts|15|36–41}} over whether to take [[John Mark]] on their second missionary journey (Barnabas wanted to give John Mark a second chance). The intellectual respect for Barnabas is so great that some consider him to have been the anonymous author of the masterpiece [[Epistle to the Hebrews]]. This Epistle discusses the Two Ways towards its end, in chapters 18 to 21, similar to the [[Essenes]]' view of themselves as the "sons of light" fighting against the "sons of darkness" as included in the [[Dead Sea Scrolls]]. | The '''Epistle of Barnabas''' is attributed to the highly intelligent early disciple [[Barnabas]], a [[Hellenized]] [[Jew]], who was for a while a travel companion of [[Paul]] until they permanently parted ways due to a "sharp disagreement" {{bibleref|Acts|15|36–41}} over whether to take [[John Mark]] on their second missionary journey (Barnabas wanted to give John Mark a second chance). The intellectual respect for Barnabas is so great that some consider him to have been the anonymous author of the masterpiece [[Epistle to the Hebrews]]. This Epistle discusses the Two Ways towards its end, in chapters 18 to 21, similar to the [[Essenes]]' view of themselves as the "sons of light" fighting against the "sons of darkness" as included in the [[Dead Sea Scrolls]]. |