Temple Studies Group

Symposium III: The Holy Anointing Oil

The third Temple Studies Group Symposium was on Saturday 31 October 2009 in the Temple Church, London. Anointing with myrrh oil was the most holy mystery of the Jerusalem temple. It passed into Christianity and gave the faith its name. This symposium explored the temple rite and its meaning, and then looked at some of the ways in which Christians preserved the ancient tradition.

SPEAKERS
Dr Margaret Barker		The Holy Oil in Temple Tradition (pdf 68KB).
Prof. John Hall		The Anointing of the Gods: Sanctification and Authority from Egyptian Pharaohs to Hebrew Priest Kings and Beyond.
Archimandrite Ephrem		The Holy Oil in the Orthodox Church.
The Rev. Dr Richard Price		The Holy Oil in the Early Church.
Dr Sebastian Brock		The Holy Oil in Syriac Tradition (pdf 27KB).
The Rev. Dr Laurence Hemming		The Holy Oil in Roman Catholic Tradition.