Christmas, The Original Story by Margaret Barker

Author:Margaret Barker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: SPCK

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1 Ps 2.7 as quoted in the Codex Bezae, is ‘virtually the only reading that survives from the 2nd and 3rd centuries’. See B. D. Ehrman, The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993, p. 62.

2 Ehrman, The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture, p. 62.

3 Quoted in Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah 11.2.

4 Justin, Trypho 88.

5 Clement, Instructor 1.25.

6 Origen, 1.29; Celsus 1.41.

7 The Didascalia Apostolorum, ii.32, an early third-century text from Syria, in R. H. Connolly, ed., Didascalia Apostolorum, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1929, p. 93.

8 J. Ruis-Camps and J. Read-Heimerdinger, The Message of Acts in Codex Bezae, vol. 1, London: T&T Clark, 2006, p. 1.

9 Alas, in translation, so we have lost the nuances of the original.

10 See above, p. 7.

11 At this point the Hebrew word is singular, ‘the Living One’.

12 Origen, On Ezekiel Homily 1.

13 And the minimum age for the ‘bishop’ of the Damascus Covenant Community, CD XIV.

14 The fourth month in the old temple calendar that started in the autumn.

15 R. A. Anderson, ‘Theophilus: A Proposal’, Evangelical Quarterly 69.3 (1997), 195–215.

16 J. W. Wenham, Redating Matthew, Mark and Luke, Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1992, pp. 230–7.

17 Paul came from Tarsus and wrote good Greek.

18 Mishnah Tamid 5.2—6.3.

19 Mishnah Tamid 7.2.

20 See below, p. 115.

21 See R. A. Aytoun, ‘The Ten Lucan Hymns of the Infancy in their Original Language’, Journal of Theological Studies 18 (1916–17), pp. 274–88. All the analyses of the hymns as poetry are from this article.

22 The debate around the proposals of C. T. Fletcher Louis, set out in his book All the Glory of Adam: Liturgical Anthropology in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Leiden: Brill, 2002.

23 See above, p. 26.

24 For a good summary, see R. E. Brown, The Birth of the Messiah, updated edition, London: Cassell, 1993, pp. 350–5.

25 1QH X.

26 1QH XIII.

27 1QH XIII.

28 1QM XI.

29 4Q 171.

30 4Q 521.

31 The Isaiah passage reads: ‘The voice crying, “In the wilderness prepare the way ...”’.

32 CD XIV.

33 The second half of the greeting is omitted by several modern versions, but appears in the Codex Bezae, the fifth-century Codex Alexandrinus, many Old Latin texts and in the Vulgate, and was included in the AV. Other ancient texts do not have it.

34 Mary’s being of the house of David appears in the Ascension of Isaiah 11.2; the Infancy Gospel of James 10.1; Ignatius’ Letter to the Ephesians 18; and Justin’s Trypho 45.

35 The Coptic Life of the Virgin.

36 S. P. Brock, ‘Passover Annunciation and Epiclesis: Some Remarks on the Term aggen in the Syriac Versions of Luke 1.35’, Novum Testamentum 24.3 (1982), pp. 222–33, p. 227, quoting Ephrem, Memra on the Prologue of John.

37 Gospel of Philip, CG II.3.81.

38 In Aramaic, both words would be talya’.

39 See my book The Revelation of Jesus Christ, Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2000, p. 140.

40 The Hebrew of 1 Chron. 29.20 is, literally, ‘... they worshipped the LORD, the king’.

41 4Q 246.

42 1Q 28a II.

43 4Q Deutq.

44 See my book The Great Angel, London: SPCK, 1992, pp.

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