Education
University of Cambridge.
University of Cambridge.
She has developed an approach to biblical studies known as She was president of the Society for Old Testament Study in 1998, and in July 2008 she was awarded the degree of Doctor of Divinity by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Is an approach to biblical studies developed by Margaret Barker in her books starting from The Great High Priest (2003) and (2004). According to Barker, the main ideas of are the following:
entering the Holy of the Holies is a mystical experience that transforms man into an angel (theosis), thus entering the Garden of Eden and giving knowledge to understand creation.
This idea is related to the Resurrection;
the main aim of the liturgy, and in particular of the Day of Atonement, was to maintain the Creation.
Jesus, from the very beginning, was recognized as the Lord in this sense. The early Christian liturgy incorporated many elements of the First Temple Liturgy: the liturgy of the bread of the Eucharist traces its roots in the Saturday offering of the bread (Leviticus 24:5-9) and the liturgy of the wine in the Day of Atonement.
Margaret Barker works from all the available sources (the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint, the Dead Sea scrolls, the New Testament, the Jewish and Christian Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, Gnostic texts, and other early writings and artwork).