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According to Margaret Barker’s groundbreaking theory, temple mysticism underpins much of the Bible. Rooted in the cult of the first temple in ancient Judaism, temple mysticism helps us understand the origins of Christianity. It was generally received and taught as oral tradition, and many texts were changed, suppressed, or kept from public access. Barker first examines the biblical texts of...

as king for ever’ (Ps. 29:10). Since Psalm 29 is one of the oldest psalms, Isaiah would have known this temple imagery too, even though he does not mention any sea in his vision of the throne. Heaven for the first Christians was the holy of holies where the throne of God was surrounded by a crystal sea (Rev. 4:6). John saw the faithful standing on its shore (Rev. 15:2), and, according to a story known in the time of Jesus, the archangel Michael froze the sea so that Adam could walk over.23 John saw
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