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The conception of Asherah as the partner of Yahweh has stirred a lot of debate. [11] While the consensus view is that Asherah is separate from Yahwism, [65] most scholars have argued that Yahweh and Asherah were a consort pair according to some religions in the region. [7] [66] [9] [10]
Scholars believe Asherah is merely a cultic object or temple but others argue that it is a generic name for any consort of Yahweh. [ 16 ] Ronald Hendel argues a middle ground is possible, where the Asherah pole is a symbol of the eponymous goddess but is believed to be the mediator between the worshipper and Yahweh, where she becomes the ...
The final h on the construction yhwh šmrn w'šrth is "his" in "Yahweh and his Asherah." [14] [51] This is well-attested earlier [52] [full citation needed] but unusual in Biblical use with personal or divine names, raising the possibility that "Asherah" refers to some cultic object rather than a deity. [53]
Asherah, queen consort of El (Ugaritic religion), Elkunirša (Hittite religion), Yahweh (Israelite religion), Amurru (Amorite religion), Anu (Akkadian religion) and 'Amm (Religion in pre-Islamic Arabia) [13] Symbolized by an Asherah pole in the Hebrew Bible. Ashima, goddess of fate. Ashtar-Chemosh, wife of Chemosh and goddess of the Moabites.
Alongside Yahweh was his consort Asherah, [34] (replaced by the goddess "Anat-Yahu" in the temple of the 5th century Jewish settlement Elephantine in Egypt), [35] and various biblical passages indicate that statues of the goddess were kept in Yahweh's temples in Jerusalem, Bethel, and Samaria. [36] [37]
Did God Have a Wife? was intended as a popular work making available to the general public the evidence long known to Biblical archaeologists regarding ancient Israelite religion: namely that the Israelite God of antiquity (before 600 BCE), Yahweh, had a consort, that her name was Asherah, and that she was part of the Canaanite pantheon.
Yahweh, he argues, originated in Edom/Midian/Teman as a warrior-god and was subsequently assimilated into the highland pantheon headed by El and his consort, Asherah and populated by Baal and other deities. [2] Smith sees this process as marked by two major phases, which he describes as "convergence" and "differentiation".
An Asherah pole is a sacred tree or pole that stood near Canaanite religious locations to honor the Ugaritic mother-goddess Asherah, consort of El. [2] [a] The relation of the literary references to an asherah and archaeological finds of Judaean pillar-figurines has engendered a literature of debate. [3] [b]