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  <title><![CDATA[The Revelation of Jesus Christ: Which God Gave to Him to Show to His Servants What Must Soon Take Place (Revelation 1.1)]]></title>
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  <default_description>This text is an approach to the Book of Revelation. It illuminates the formative years of Christianity, in the social, religious and political situation of mid-first-century Palestine.</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Margaret Barker]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very interesting reading of the book of revelation as part of a greater body of early Christian and Jewish works on temple theology and the high priesthood (if I'm remembering it correctly). Barker appeals to a large number of sources contemporary with the book of revelation and from before to exp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15957105">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book as a part of an assignment while working for a professor of religion at BYU. My job was to study the use of numbers in Revelation... Barker is an Old Testament scholar who is well aware of the magical properties ascribed to numbers in the ancient world. Her analysis and conclusions ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10479054">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow. Great book.  Barker's thesis is that the Revelation of Jesus Christ to John took place in the temple. WHERE each vision is given - by menorah, by veil, by altar, before the throne - modifies and reveals their meanings by placing them in a temple context.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A far ranging study of Revelation.  She reads it as a revelation of Jesus Christ, as early and foundational to Christianity, rather than late and peripheral.  She emphasizes temple symbolism and the immediate context.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am stunned to silence by her erudition and insights.]]></body>
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