Did God Have a Wife? Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel.(Book review) From: The Christian Century | Date: March 21, 2006| Author: Brueggemann, Walter | COPYRIGHT 2006 The Christian Century Foundation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Did God Have a Wife? Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel. By William G. Dever. Eerdmans, 360 pp., $25.00.

WILLIAM DEVER invites the reader into the contentious discussion under way in Old Testament studies around issues of method, history and theological claims. Dever, retired from the University of Arizona, is the most influential archaeologist concerned with questions of biblical history and is, he writes, the son of "a fire-breathing fundamentalist preache...

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