By Margaret Barker
During this ebook, first released in 1991, the prolific and cutting edge British biblical student Margaret Barker units out to discover the origins and the afterlife of traditions concerning the Temple in Judaism. utilizing facts from the deutero-canonical and pseudepigraphic texts, Qumran and rabbinic fabric, in addition to early Christian texts and liturgies, she advances a bunch of radical and suggestive theories, together with the subsequent: 1. Apocalyptic writing was once the temple culture. 2. Temple structures have been aligned to set up a sunlight calendar, hence explaining the astronomical texts integrated in 1 Enoch three. The temple symbolism of priest and sanctuary antedated the Eden tales of Genesis. four. The temple constructions depicted heaven and earth separated via a veil of created topic. five. The throne visions, the foundation of the later Merkavah mysticism, originated as excessive priestly sanctuary stories, first attested in Isaiah yet originating within the royal cult while king figures handed past the temple veil from earth into heaven, from immortality to the resurrected kingdom, after which again.
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R. ;- :1,;:. i� I\ :;5��:�:;� : ,1{::· 70 THE GATE OF HEAVEN THE GARDEN installed as the scribe of the great judgement (Jub. 23). Enoch also burnt incense there: 'He burnt the incense of the sanctuary, sweet spices acceptable before the Lord on the Mount' (Jub. 25). And the throne of God was fixed where the tree of life -I! 5-6). 22 (Genesis Rabbah XXI. 8) linked the expulsion from Eden to the expulsion from the temple. This angel prince had lived in the garden of Eden, but had sinned and so was thrown down from the mountain.
11). The booth here must have been the place his cherubim, with the angels proceeding before him and singing of the king, just as the angel/king of Tyre had had his covering. 7 ;�. ,.. :" THE GARDEN 72 73 THE GATE OF HEAVEN Amos implies that the Sacrifice as the sanctuaries of the seven angels. It would have booth had been destroyed and with it, been from one of these golden places, or rather from the heavenly Israel. In Ezekiel's oracle, the angel/king of Tyre was thrown from his sanctuary and thus the prosperity of Tyre was ended.