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Traditional scholarship often traces Christian origins to the synagogue. Barker argues that this focus is limited. She suggests that the earliest Christians saw themselves as the "new temple" and their rituals—like the Eucharist and Baptism—as direct evolutions of high priestly temple rites. Great High Priest - Margaret Barker

Margaret Barker’s explores the revolutionary idea that Christian worship is not a development of the synagogue, but a conscious continuation of the ancient Jerusalem Temple. The Shift from Synagogue to Temple

Margaret Barker. ... * Most scholarship on the origins of Christian liturgy has concentrated upon the synagogues. Margaret Barker' www.margaretbarker.com Go to product viewer dialog for this item. Great High Priest: The Temple Roots of Christian Liturgy