“It’s things like that, you know, reading through Matthew as well, all sorts of things, there’s such many stories, and when you stop and read them, you think, ‘Oh, my goodness!’  You know.  ‘I’ve been looking at that for fifty years, and it just never dawned on me what I was reading.’  It is amazing.” —Margaret Barker

“I’ll be interested to see how the public reacts to it, because, the Christmas story is something that’s got a lot of emotional capital tied up in it.  I think if I were to write radical book about Obadiah, no one would worry as much.  But when you’re doing a Christmas story people [...], oh hands off, [...] don’t touch.  But I hope I have set it in its real historical and cultural sensing, so that people can glimpse maybe what the authors were really writing…” —Margaret Barker

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Margaret Barker Interview - Part 3b (Christmas)

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