Kasturi Karen Mattern·Sep 30Enoch: Fallen Angels and the OathOne of the things I noticed when reading about the Fallen Angels in ‘The Book of Enoch’ section of Margaret Barker’s “The Older Testament”…
Kasturi Karen Mattern·Sep 16Enoch: Wisdom and Magic‘Wisdom’ appears as a central character in the world of pre-Babylonian Hebrew culture. She was imaged as Tree, Stream / Pool / Fountain of…
Kasturi Karen Mattern·Sep 10Enoch: AngelsThe first of Dr. Margaret Barker’s books that I read was The Great Angel (published by SPCK, 1992), in which I learned that pre-exilic…
Kasturi Karen Mattern·Sep 9EnochIn line with my introductory post, we’ll begin with how Margaret Barker looks at extra-biblical sources contemporaneous with pre-exilic…
Kasturi Karen Mattern·Sep 7My Admiration for Margaret Barker’s ResearchI’m a former theology student with a lifelong interest in spiritual practice, journalling, poetry and so on. I’ve recently become…