{"id":17145,"date":"2015-01-22T11:17:29","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T18:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=17145"},"modified":"2015-01-22T11:17:29","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T18:17:29","slug":"margaret-barker-and-the-maxwell-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/01\/margaret-barker-and-the-maxwell-institute.html","title":{"rendered":"Margaret Barker and the Maxwell Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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LOL. \u00a0I\u2019ve just happened upon the suggestion, offered pseudonymously online (natch!), that the changes at the Maxwell Institute in 2012 may have been motivated by a desire to persuade the extraordinarily interesting British biblical scholar Margaret Barker to publish with the Institute. \u00a0It seems that, until my brand of apologetic pseudo-scholarship was surgically removed from the organization, she and other serious non-Mormon scholars would have nothing to do with it.<\/p>\n

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Well, ummm . . .<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/publications.maxwellinstitute.byu.edu\/people\/margaret-barker\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Heck, I believe \u2014 though I\u2019m not going to take the time to look for it right now \u2014 that she\u2019s even cited<\/em> me. \u00a0In any case, I and others once involved with The Bad Old FARMS have continued to interact with Dr. Barker, and to share the speaker\u2019s rostrum with her, through the Academy for Temple Studies<\/a>. \u00a0And here\u2019s her jacket endorsement for Samuel Zinner\u2019s Textual and Comparative Explorations in 1 & 2 Enoch<\/em><\/a>, which was just published by The Interpreter Foundation (of which I\u2019m the chairman of the board and president):<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is a glimpse of the future of Enoch studies. I could not put the book down. Zinner scrutinises the work of several scholars in the field and also draws on his own vast knowledge to set the Enoch texts in their wider context. He finds traces of them not only in the Bible, Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, but also in Mandaean texts, the Qur\u2019an, the Zohar and the Scriptures of the Latter-day Saints. Each essay is a gem.\u201d<\/strong> Margaret Barker, former President of the Society for Old Testament Study<\/span><\/p>\n

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There are genuine perils to speculation that\u2019s totally\u00a0untethered to actual\u00a0facts.<\/p>\n

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