The Great High Priest: The Temple Roots of Christian Liturgy (2003 Barker), book

The Great High Priest: The Temple Roots of Christian Liturgy (2003) is a book by Margaret Barker.

Abstract

Margaret Barker's work on the Jerusalem temple opens up a new field of research and contributes significantly to our understanding of the meaning and importance of many elements of Christian liturgy which have hitherto remained obscure. The many subjects addressed include the roots of the Eucharist in various temple rituals and offerings other than Passover, the meaning of the Christian sanctuary, the cosmology of temple and church, the Holy Wisdom and the Mother of God, the high priestly tradition in the early church and evidence that Christianity was a conscious continuation of the temple. (Google Books)

Editions and translations

Published in London and Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 2003. First American Edition published in New York, NY: T & T Clark, 2003. Reprinted in London: Clark, 2006.

Table of contents

• 1. The Secret Tradition
• 2. The Time is Fulfilled: Jesus and the Jubilee
• 3. Atonement: The Rite of Healing
• 4. Parousia and Liturgy
• 5. The Temple Roots of Christian Liturgy
• 6. The Angel Priesthood
• 7. The Holy of Holies
• 8. Beyond the Veil of the Temple: the High Priestly Origin of the Apocalypses
• 9. The Veil as the Boundary
• 10. Wisdom, the Queen of Heaven
• 11. Temple and Timaeus
• 12. Text and Context

External links

• Google Books (partial text)