{"product_id":"the-mother-of-the-lord-margaret-baker-9780567362469","title":"The Mother of the Lord: Volume 1: The Lady in the Temple","description":"Are there Old Testament roots of the veneration of the Blessed Virgin Mary? Margaret Barker traces the roots of the devotion to Mary as Mother of the Lord back to the Old Testament and the first temple in Jerusalem. The evidence is consistent over more than a millennium: there had been a female deity in Israel, the Mother figure in the Royal cult, who had been abandoned about 600BCE. She was almost written out of the Hebrew text, almost excluded from the canon. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThis first of two volumes traces the history of the Lady in the Temple, and looks forward to the second volume in which Barker will show how the Lady of the Temple is reclaimed in the advent of Christianity, and becomes the Lady in the Church. The result is breathtaking, and like all Barker's work, is impossible to put down.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Margaret Baker, Margaret Barker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0567362469\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780567362469\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/29\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.50d","brand":"Margaret Baker","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43920212885759,"sku":"9780567362469","price":220.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_37d42a67-7689-451d-8bc0-de54d77d3901.jpg?v=1680814155","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-mother-of-the-lord-margaret-baker-9780567362469","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}