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Older Testament

The Survival of Themes from the Ancient Royal Cult in Sectarian Judaism and Early Christianity

  • Paperback
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.8 cm

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The Older Testament is a radically new approach to many problems of both Old and New Testaments. It takes as a basis the theology of the book of Enoch, lost to western Christendom for many centuries, but here recognized as providing the most consistent set of clues to the nature of Israel's pre-exilic religion. Reformers and editors of the Second Temple period sought to remove from the biblical texts all traces of the older ways, which now survive only in the apparently bizarre themes and imagery of certain Pseudepigrapha. Margaret Barker traces some of the ways in which the Deuteronomic standpoint came to dominate future readings of the Hebrew Bible as well as scholarly conceptions of Israel's religious development. Her reconstruction of the pre-Deuteronomic religion throws a startling light on much of the imagery of the New Testament and shows how closely the earlier Christian expectations were based upon the ancient royal cult in Jerusalem. This book represents an important and original contribution to our understanding of Judaism and early Christianity.
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  • Author

    Margaret Barker

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Sheffield Phoenix Press

  • Published

    July 2005

  • Edition

    New edition

  • Weight

    464g

  • Page Count

    328

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9781905048199

  • ISBN-10

    190504819X

  • Eden Code

    1016969

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