Kyle Harrison
to-read
The Great Angel
The Great Angel: A Study of Israel's Second God
- Author
- Margaret Barker
- Published
- 1992
- Pages
- 253
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: Barker’s argument that pre-exilic Israelite religion recognised a second divine figure alongside Yahweh, and that the traces of that older theology survive in Second Temple texts and in early Christology. Widely read among Latter-day Saint scholars for obvious reasons.
Where I saw it: A bare Amazon link saved in the note.
Connections
- Religious Intellectualism — the portfolio idea this sits closest to.
- Bible · Old Testament — the textual ground the argument is built on.
- Christianity — the tradition whose early Christology Barker traces back to it.