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)
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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