Did God Have A Wife? Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel

Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society | September 1, 2006| | Copyright

Did God Have A Wife? Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel. By William G. Dever. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006, xvi + 344 pp., $25.00.

This book, which completes Dever's trilogy on Israelite history, society, and religion, seeks to reconstruct the practice of religion "from the ground up," that is, by depending primarily on archaeological data. Dever begins by denning his task and approach in "Defining and Contextualizing Religion" (chap. 1). In "The History of the History: In Search of Ancient Israelite Religions" (chap. 2) and "Sources and Methods for the Study of Ancient Israel's ...

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