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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...

Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of Hosts, heaven and earth are full of thy glory: Glory be to thee, O Lord most High.4 Isaiah saw the temple filled with smoke, perhaps in reality the smoke of incense that the high priest took with him into the holy of holies, but the prophet described it with a word that implies the LORD’s anger, ‘ashan, as in ‘O LORD of Hosts, how long will you be angry, smoke, against the prayers of your people?’ (Ps. 80:4, my translation). His reaction was fear and a sense of his own
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