Are there Old Testament roots of the veneration of the Blessed
Virgin Mary? Margaret Barker traces the roots of the devotion to
Mary as Mother of the Lord back to the Old Testament and the first
temple in Jerusalem. The evidence is consistent over more than a
millennium: there had been a female deity in Israel, the Mother
figure in the Royal cult, who had been abandoned about 600BCE. She
was almost written out of the Hebrew text, almost excluded from the
canon. This first of two volumes traces the history of the Lady in
the Temple, and looks forward to the second volume in which Barker
will show how the Lady of the Temple is reclaimed in the advent of
Christianity, and becomes the Lady in the Church. The result is
breathtaking, and like all Barker's work, is impossible to put
down.
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