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Margaret Barker read
theology at the University of Cambridge, England, and went on to
pursue her research independently.
She was elected President
of the
Society for Old Testament Study
in 1998, and is currently the Editor of the Society’s Monograph
Series, published by
Ashgate.
She has so far written 13
books, which form a sequence, later volumes building on her
earlier conclusions.
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Since 1997, she has been
part of the symposium
Religion, Science and the Environment,
convened by His All Holiness Bartholomew I, the Ecumenical
Patriarch. This work has led her to develop the practical
implications of temple theology as the basis for a Christian
environment theology.
In July 2008 Margaret Barker was
awarded a
DD by the Archbishop of Canterbury ‘in recognition of her work
on the Jerusalem Temple and the origins of Christian Liturgy,
which has made a significantly new contribution to our
understanding of the New Testament and opened up important
fields for research.’
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Margaret Barker is a
mother and grandmother, a Methodist Preacher, and has been
involved, since it opened in 1977, with the work of a Women’s
Refuge.
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