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Asherah
Asherah A goddess worshipped by the Canaanite predecessors of the Israelites to whom they were sometimes tempted to return. She was a mother-goddess and is mentioned in the
Ras Shamra tablets, and images possibly representing her on a sacred pole are ordered to be destroyed by force in Deut. 12: 3. Queen
Jezebel encouraged her cult in the northern kingdom (1 Kgs. 18: 19) as did
Manasseh in the south (2 Kgs. 21: 7). In popular religion denounced by the
prophets (Mic. 5: 12–13). Asherah was sometimes regarded as Yahweh's consort, whereas Yahweh of the official religion was not regarded as a sexual being.
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Tue Cult of Asherah in Ancient Israel and Judah: Evidence for a Hebrew Goddess. (Reviews of Books).
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; Tue Cult of Asherah in Ancient Israel and Judah: Evidence...95. After a large output of books on Asherah over the last decade or so, one may fairly...evidence possibly pertinent to the goddess Asherah and the object having the same name...
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The Cult of Asherah in Ancient Israel and Judah: Evidence for Hebrew Goddess
Magazine article from: Near Eastern Archaeology; 12/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; The Cult of Asherah in Ancient Israel and Judah: Evidence...contribution to the study of the goddess Asherah, and gives a better understanding of...elaborates on the critical problem in Asherah studies, namely did Israelites worship...
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Judith M. Hadley, The Cult of Asherah in Ancient Israel and Judah.
Magazine article from: Women in Judaism; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; Judith M. Hadley, The Cult of Asherah in Ancient Israel and Judah. University...study of the worship of the tree-goddess Asherah in biblical times. Expanding on her earlier work on the Asherah inscriptions from the Judean desert, the...
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Judith M. Hadley, The Cult of Asherah in Ancient Israel and Judah: Evidence for a Hebrew Goddess.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Biblical Theology Bulletin; 3/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Pp. xvi + 262. Cloth, $64.95. The goddess Asherah and her symbol, the asherah (lower case "a"), have generated much scholarly...northern Sinai referring to "Yahweh and his a/Asherah"and dating approximately to the ninth/eighth...
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The Cult of Asherah in Ancient Israel and Judah: Evidence for a Hebrew Goddess
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 7/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; JUDITH M. HADLEY, The Cult of Asherah in Ancient Israel and Judah: Evidence...monographs have been produced on the subject of Asherah in relationship to the OT, and yet the...Despite the amount of study devoted to Asherah/Athirat, especially stimulated by the...
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Die G[ddot{o}]ttin I[check{s}]hara: Ein Beitrag zur altorientalischen Religions-geschichte & Asherah: Goddesses in Ugarit, Israel and the Old Testament.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 10/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...UGARIT-VERLAG, 1996. Pp. xii + 248. DM 102. Asherah: Goddesses in Ugarit, Israel and the Old Testament...source material. Then she has three major chapters on Asherah in Ugarit, Asherah in Israel (where she treats the nonbiblical epigraphic...
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Asherah: Goddesses in Ugarit, Israel and the Old Testament
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 4/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; TILE BINGER, Asherah: Goddesses in Ugarit, Israel and the...examination of the epigraphic evidence for Asherah in Iron Age Israel. The Khirbet el...possibility offered on p. 96 n. 17 that "his Asherah shone for him" when Irt is preceded...
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Did God Have A Wife? Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel
Magazine article from: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society; 9/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Ancient Israel" (chap. 5), "The Goddess Asherah and Her Cult" (chap. 6), and "Asherah, Women's Cults, and Official Yahwism...particulary inscriptions related to "Yahweh and his Asherah" (pp. 110-251). Dever concludes that...
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The Religion of Ancient Israel
Magazine article from: Journal of Biblical Literature; 4/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...A rehearsal of the scholarship on A/asherah as goddess or symbol and the place of...of symbols including bull images, the asherah, and pillars, symbols that apparently...cult objects such as the aforementioned asherah, bull images, and high places, along...
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A reassessment of Hezekiah's reform in light of jar handles and iconographic evidence
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 7/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...places, smashed the pillars, cut down the Asherah, and broke in pieces the bronze serpent...that is, the high places, pillars, and Asherah; and second, these studies are based...removal of the high places, pillars, and Asherah. Hezekiah's reform has also been explained...
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Asherah
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Asherah or Asheroth , Canaanite fertility goddess and the wooden...Bible may refer to the planting of a tree as a symbol of Asherah, or the setting up of a wooden object as an asherah—the Hebrew words for "tree" and "wood" are...
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Phoenician mythology
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...divine hierarchy. With lightning as his weapon, he defended the divine order against the ever-present menace of Chaos. Asherah was generally seen as a female counterpart to El. Anath, the goddess of love and war, was the consort of Baal; a ferocious...
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Jezebel
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...of King Ahab and the mother of Ahaziah, Jehoram, and Athaliah. She encouraged worship of Baal, including the worship of Asherah and persecuted the prophets of her day. Jezebel was the bitter foe of Elijah . Elijah's prophecy of Jezebel's doom was...
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Canaan
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...the Promised Land of the Israelites, and after their delivery from Egypt they subjugated it. The land held a number of pre-Israelite peoples listed in several passages in the Bible. See Ugarit ; Asherah ; Baal ; Philistia ; Phoenicia .
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Motherhood
Dictionary entry from: Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary
455. Motherhood Asherah mother of the gods; counterpart of Gaea. [Canaanite Myth.: Ben é t, 57] Cybele Great Mother; goddess of nature...
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