The Mother of the Lord Volume 1, The lady in the temple / by Margaret Barker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barker, Margaret, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint.

Mary.

Bible. Genesis--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (417 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : T & T Clark, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Are there Old Testament roots of the veneration of the Blessed Virgin Mary? Margaret Barker traces the roots of the devotion to Mary as Mother of the Lord back to the Old Testament and the first temple in Jerusalem. The evidence is consistent over more than a millennium: there had been a female deity in Israel, the Mother figure in the Royal cult, who had been abandoned about 600BCE. She was almost written out of the Hebrew text, almost excluded from the canon. This first of two volumes traces the history of the Lady in the Temple, and looks forward to the second volume in which Barker will s

Contents:

CONTENTS; Preface; Introduction; 1 The End of the First Temple; Josiah; In Search of Other Voices; The Other Communities; The Other History; The Other Wisdom Books; The Cultural Revolution; The Calendar; Jeremiah; 2 The Early Kings; The Old Region; Isaiah; The Holy One; 3 The Old Beliefs; Some Assumptions; Shaddai; Eloah; Job; The Sun; 4 The Older Covenant; All Things New; Holy Mountains; The Everlasting Covenant; 5 Into Exile; Ezekiel's Visions; The Cloud and the Glory; Pythagoras and Plato; The Cube of Fire; The Numbers of Creation; The Forms; The Tetraktys; Barbelo; 6 Losing the Lady

Double MeaningsBefore Genesis; The Crisis; Ezekiel's Eden; The Genesis Eden; Postscript: The Lady of the Church; Index of Persons, Places and Subjects; Index of Canonical and Deutero-Canonical Biblical Texts; Index of Other Texts

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781283736220

1283736225

9780567378613

0567378616

OCLC:

818116905