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Asherah was an important Goddess recognized across Northwest Semitic cultures. However, particularly in the Hebrew Bible, the term asherah and sometimes asherot, came to be identified with cultic wooden objects, sometimes referred to as asherah poles.
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]
An Asherah pole is a sacred tree or pole that stood near Canaanite religious locations to ... John (September 1986). "Asherah in the Hebrew Bible and Northwest ...
The bamah of Megiddo. From the Hebrew Bible and from existing remains a good idea may be formed of the appearance of such a place of worship. It was often on the hill above the town, as at Ramah (1 Samuel 9:12–14); there was a stele (), the seat of the deity, and a Asherah pole (named after the goddess Asherah), which marked the place as sacred and was itself an object of worship; there was ...
It was often on the hill above the town, as at Ramah (1 Samuel 9:12–14); there was a stele , the seat of the deity, and a Asherah pole (named after the goddess Asherah), which marked the place as sacred and was itself an object of worship; there was a stone altar (מִזְבֵּחַ mīzbēaḥ "slaughter place"), often of considerable size ...
Asherah, queen consort of El (Ugaritic religion), Elkunirsa (Hittite religion), Yahweh (Israelite religion), Amurru (Amorite religion), Anu (Akkadian religion) and 'Amm (Religion in pre-Islamic Arabia) [7] Symbolized by an Asherah pole in the Hebrew Bible. Ashima, goddess of fate. Ashtar-Chemosh, wife of Chemosh and goddess of the Moabites.
The Hebrew Goddess supports the theory through the interpretation of archaeological and textual sources as evidence for veneration of feminine beings. Hebrew goddesses identified in the book include Asherah, Anath, Astarte, Ashima, the cherubim in Solomon's Temple, the Matronit (Shekhina), and the personified "Shabbat Bride".
Kuntillet ʿAjrud (Arabic: كونتيلة عجرود) or Horvat Teman (Hebrew: חורבת תימן) is a late 9th/early 8th centuries BCE site in the northeast part of the Sinai Peninsula. [1] It is frequently described as a shrine, though this is not certain. [2]