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Margaret Barker (1) (1944–)

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Margaret Barker is a former President of the Society for Old Testament Study, and author of numerous works, including The Older Testament, The Lost Prophet, The Gate of Heaven, The Great Angel. His All Holiness Bartholomew is Archbishop of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch.
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Informazioni generali

Data di nascita
1944
Sesso
female
Nazionalità
UK
Luogo di residenza
UK
Istruzione
University of Cambridge
Attività lavorative
Methodist Preacher
Organizzazioni
Society for Old Testament Study (President)
Breve biografia
Margaret Barker is a mother and grandmother, a Methodist Preacher, and has been involved, since it opened in 1977, with the work of a Women’s Refuge.

She read theology at the University of Cambridge, England, and went on to pursue her research independently. 

She was elected President of the Society for Old Testament Study in 1998*, and is currently the Editor of the Society’s Monograph Series, published by Ashgate. 

She has so far written 13 books, which form a sequence, later volumes building on her earlier conclusions.

Since 1997, she has been part of the symposium Religion, Science and the Environment, convened by His All Holiness Bartholomew I, the Ecumenical Patriarch. This work has led her to develop the practical implications of temple theology as the basis for a Christian environment theology.

In July 2008 Margaret Barker was awarded a DD by the Archbishop of Canterbury ‘in recognition of her work on the Jerusalem Temple and the origins of Christian Liturgy, which has made a significantly new contribution to our understanding of the New Testament and opened up important fields for research.

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It's a really nice application of the theology of the Temple and the Lady to the nativity story – so it's great to see this superficially familiar tale reset into that deeper, more ancient context. As usual, I appreciated her use of a broader array of sources: Ugarit, NHL stuff, Infancy Gospel of James and the Quran. Very cool to see the way the Temple hypothesis provides underlying harmony to surface contradictions.

Having said all that – this is typical Barker: it's a wild ride through far-flung sources, many of which only scholars will know well enough to follow. There only brief pauses (although I notice her paragraphs are getting a little shorter and there are section headings! Welcome innovation. Perhaps there are editors somewhere in the publication process nowadays). Because this one is comparatively later in the bibliography, she doesn't make the case for a lot of scribal "correction" - she just points to earlier books where she's done so. That's less exhausting if you've already read some other Barker works, but if this is your first, it may not be convincing.

Lastly… well it just stops, as Dr Barker's books often do. There's no undergraduate summing up of the key points. She just says her final thing and then you're in the endnotes. I'm thinking I could write a book called "Summing Up: missing conclusions from the work of Margaret Barker" in which I just write the missing conclusions from every book. I bet it would sell!

All in all, it's not as accessible as Temple Theology or Temple Mysticism, but it's more accessible than a lot of the more academic stuff – partly because it all rotates around this much-loved narrative we all (think we) know.

So, I'd recommend it. I guarantee it will get you more curious about some new things you've never heard of. It will deepen your grasp of Temple Theology and its applications. It will clarify your understanding of the Lady and the role she plays in incarnation.

Merry Christmas!
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timjmansfield | Oct 15, 2022 |
I read this in conjunction with Michael McGuckian's The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. And they were serendipitously compatible. McGuckian reached back to OT temple practices to explain the Eucharist. It was a reading high experience. Barker filled in a lot of previous blanks.
 
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2wonderY | Oct 23, 2019 |
Margaret Barker contributes a characteristically Christian voice to contemporary theological debates on the environment. Most of the issues we face today were not those that faced the early Christian community and so there are often no directly relevant biblical teachings. Barker's starting point is the question of what Jesus himself would have believed about the Creation? What could the early Church have believed about the Creation? She then shows how much of this belief is embedded, often unrecognized, in the New Testament and early Christian texts. It was what people assumed as the norm, the world view within which they lived and expressed their faith. Barker deals with such arguments as, 'But the New Testament says nothing about this', and establishes the general principles of a Christian view of Creation. Starting with how the Bible was understood by early Christians, Barker looks briefly at the history of a text or symbol, before examining what later Christian teachers did with that text or symbol. The idea that Adam was the steward of the creation, for example, is entirely unbiblical, and was imported into the text with disastrous results. Some of what she says will show how current teaching would have been unfamiliar to the first Christians, not just in application but in basic principles.… (altro)
 
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ExeterQuakers | Jul 28, 2019 |
Almost a mystical experience to read through and see the heavens opened up. I can offer no judgment as to whether Barker is correct or simply so clever a mind as to construct an irrefutable falsehood.
 
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plackattack | Jul 11, 2019 |

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