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The Hidden Tradition of the Kingdom, (London: SPCK, 2007) describes the roots of the idea of the Kingdom of God. Barker locates the original Kingdom ideas in the holy of holies, the place of the throne, and shows how the ideals of the holy of holies were the inspiration for the various later beliefs about the Kingdom. She shows how fashions in scholarship have obscured much of the ancient evidence, and then reconstructs the traditions of the high priesthood - Enoch and Melchizedek as well as Aaron - before reading the gospel evidence with this new paradigm |
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"We live in a time when politics, and also geopolitics, are
enormously affected by passionate arguments over what it would mean
to establish the 'Kingdom of God' on earth. Anybody with an interest
in the outcome of those arguments should pay close attention to
Margaret Barker’s insightful and thought-provoking investigation of
the background and context in which the first Christians spoke of
the Kingdom". Bruce Clark, Religious Affairs Correspondent, The Economist SPCK, 2007. ISBN 9780281058464
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(c) Margaret Barker 2006.