The Great Angel: A Study of Israel's Second God (1992 Barker), book

The Great Angel: A Study of Israel's Second God (1992) is a book by Margaret Barker.

Abstract

In this groundbreaking book, Barker claims that pre-Christian Judaism was not monotheistic and that the roots of Christian Trinitarian theology lie in a pre-Christian Palestinian belief about angels derived from the ancient religion of Israel. Barker's beliefs are based on canonical and deutero-canonical works and literature from Qumran and rabbinic sources. (Google Books)

Table of contents

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Son of God
• 3. The Evidence of the Exile
• 4. The Evidence of the Old Testament
• 5. The Evidence of Wisdom
• 6. The Evidence of the Angels
• 7. The Evidence of the Name
• 8. The Evidence of Philo
• 9. The Evidence of the Jewish Writers
• 10. The Evidence of the Gnostics
• 11. The Evidence of the First Christians
• 12. The Evidence of the New Testament

External links

• Google Books (partial text)