The Mother of the Lord, vol. 1

by Margaret Barker

Publisher:

T&T Clark

, 2012

Overview

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 BC 600. 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 show how the Lady of the Temple is reclaimed in the advent of Christianity, and becomes the Lady in the Church. The result is breathtaking, and like all Barker's work, is impossible to put down.

Product Details

• Title: The Mother of the Lord, vol. 1
• Author: Margaret Barker
• Volume: 1
• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Print Publication Date: 2012
• Logos Release Date: 2014
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint; Bible. O.T. Genesis › Criticism, interpretation, etc
• ISBNs: 9780567528155, 0567528154
• Resource ID: LLS:MTRLRD1BARKER
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2023-03-02T22:12:27Z

About Margaret Barker

Margaret Barker (born 1944), a Methodist preacher, studied theology at the University of Cambridge, after which she has devoted her life to research in ancient Christianity. She has developed an approach to Biblical studies known as Temple Theology. She was president of the Society for Old Testament Study in 1998, and in July 2008 she was awarded a DD by the Archbishop of Canterbury.