Kevin Christensen
on the scholarship of Margaret Barker

Revised 22 August 2008 


    From Meridian Magazine
“The Place Where Latter-day Saints Gather”
  HTML Plain and Precious Things Restored: Why Margaret Barker Matters
  HTML Plain and Precious Things Restored: Spiritual Blindness
  HTML Plain and Precious Things Restored: Margaret Barker and Josiah’s Reform
  HTML Plain and Precious Things Restored: Margaret Barker and Wisdom
  HTML Plain and Precious Things Restored: Margaret Barker and the Queen of Heaven
  HTML Plain and Precious Things Restored: Jesus and the Temple Tradition
  HTML Margaret Barker's Understanding of Jesus Christ


    From FARMS
The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS) is a division of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship.
  HTML The Temple, the Monarchy, and Wisdom: Lehi's World and the Scholarship of Margaret Barker
 — Chapter 16 of Glimpses of Lehi’s Jerusalem. Go to Maxwell Institute Books for more from this and several other FARMS online books.
  HTML Nephi, Wisdom, and the Deuteronomist Reform
  HTML Jacob’s Connections to First Temple Traditions
PDF HTML The Deuteronomist De-Christianizing of the Old Testament
 — Review of Melody Moench Charles, “The Mormon Christianizing of the Old Testament.”
PDF HTML A Response to Paul Owen's Comments on Margaret Barker
 — Review of Paul Owen, “Monotheism, Mormonism, and the New Testament Witness” in The New Mormon Challenge.


    Also from FARMS
  HTML The complete text of Paradigms Regained: A Survey of Margaret Barker’s Scholarship and Its Significance for Mormon Studies


    Other Latter-day Saint authors
Although not specifically addressing Barker’s scholarship, these articles from FARMS and FAIR (Foundation for Apologetic Information & Research) are relevant to a Latter-day Saint appreciation of symbols of feminine divinity from the first temple era.
  HTML Daniel C. Peterson, Nephi and his Asherah. Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 9/2 (Provo, UT: FARMS, 2000).
  PDF Kevin L. Barney, Do We Have a Mother in Heaven? (Mesa, Arizona: FAIR, 27 June 2001)
PDF HTML Alyson Skabelund Von Feldt, Does God Have a Wife? FARMS Review 19/1 (Provo, Utah: Maxwell Institute, 2007). Review of William G. Dever, Did God Have a Wife? Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2005).


 


    Related “Thinly Veiled” pages
  Margaret Barker site directory Margaret Barker site directory
  Online Articles by Margaret Barker Online Articles by Margaret Barker
  Available books by Margaret Barker Available books by Margaret Barker
  Early Judeo-Christian writings Early Judeo-Christian writings


 


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