According to Margaret Barker's groundbreaking theory, temple mysticism underpins much of the Bible. Rooted in the cult of the first temple in ancient Judaism, it helps us to understand the origins of Christianity. Temple mysticism was received and taught as oral tradition, and many texts were changed or suppressed or kept from public access. Barker first examines biblical texts: Isaiah, the prophet whom Jesus quoted more than any other in Scripture, and John. Then she proposes a more detailed picture, drawing on a wide variety of non-biblical texts. The resulting book presents some remarkable results.

Margaret Barker

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Dedication

Exhortation to the Greeks

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Introduction

1. The sources

2. The One

3. The Many

4. The throne

5. The Servant

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Barker, Margaret

__'In another original, challenging and deeply learned book, Margaret Barker further consolidates her revolutionary rereading of the backround of the New Tesament. A welcome study, enlarging the mind and the imagination' Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury__

According to Margaret Barker's groundbreaking theory, temple mysticism underpins much of the Bible. Rooted in the cult of the first temple in ancient Judaism, it helps us to understand the origins of Christianity.

Temple mysticism was received and taught as oral tradition, and many texts were changed or suppressed or kept from public access. Barker first examines biblical texts: Isaiah, the prophet whom Jesus quoted more than any other in Scripture, and John. Then she proposes a more detailed picture, drawing on a wide variety of non-biblical texts. The resulting book presents some remarkable results.

The hypothesis of temple mysticism provides bew answers to important questions: who did Jesus think he was and what did he think he was doing? Dow did Christianity undestand their new faith and how did they express this in their worship. Temple Mysticism presents some remarkable relusts.

According to Margaret Barker, temple mysticism underpins much of the Bible. Rooted in the cult of the first temple in ancient Judaism, it helps us to understand the origins of Christianity. Barker first examines biblical texts: Isaiah, the prophet whom Jesus quoted more than any other in Scripture, and John, and then non-biblical texts.

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According to Margaret Barker Temple Mysticism is a hypothesis based on a new understanding of the design and ritual of the Jerusalem Temple. Her theory proposes that much of our understanding of the origin of Christianity is underpinned by a more ancient comprehension of what the Temple stood for. She argues that much of Temple Mysticism was taught orally, that many texts were changed or suppressed, and that there are underlying meanings in much of what has been seen as Temple tradition. The author has made an extensive study of Temple ritual and draws out many new observations in her revolutionary approach. Not a book for the faint-hearted, but one provoking many questions in the mind of the reader and providing some interesting new perspectives on ancient Jewish religion. As Dr Rowan Williams says of it, ‘A welcome study, enlarging the mind and imagination.’

Temple Mysticism

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