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Margaret Barker contributes a characteristically Christian voice to contemporary theological debates on the environment. Most of the issues we face today weren’t the same as the early Christian community and often there were no relevant biblical teachings. Barker’s starting point is the question of what Jesus himself would have believed about the creation and what could the early Church have...

[“Edens”] with everlasting peace and length of days.’117 This Qumran hymn seems to allude to the temple ritual described in Psalm 110, when the human king is seated on a divine throne—as Adam the image?—to rule over his foes as the image was to rule the angels. He is declared Melchi-zedek, the king who upholds righteousness, he was ‘born’,118 as was the king in Psalm 2, and oil is part of the ritual, described as ‘dew’, the sacrament of Wisdom and the symbol of resurrection. This, then, was the original
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