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An outdated argument, however, postulates that Astarte's character was less erotic and more warlike than Ishtar originally was, perhaps because she was influenced by the Canaanite goddess Anat, and that therefore Ishtar, not Astarte, was the direct forerunner of the Cypriot goddess. However, evidence from Iron Age Phoenicia show that Astarte ...
The Hebrew term qadishtu, formerly translated as "temple prostitutes" or "shrine prostitutes", literally means "priestesses" or "consecrated women", from the Semitic root qdš, meaning "holy". [83] However, there is a shrinking scholarly consensus that sacred prostitution existed, and some argue that sex acts within the temple were limited to ...
New Hebrew-German Dictionary: with grammatical notes and list of abbreviations, compiled by Wiesen, Moses A., published by Rubin Mass, Jerusalem, in 1936 [12] The modern Greek-Hebrew, Hebrew-Greek dictionary, compiled by Despina Liozidou Shermister, first published in 2018; The Oxford English Hebrew dictionary, published in 1998 by the Oxford ...
Queen of Heaven was a title given to several ancient sky goddesses worshipped throughout the ancient Mediterranean and the ancient Near East.Goddesses known to have been referred to by the title include Inanna, Anat, Isis, Nut, Astarte, and possibly Asherah (by the prophet Jeremiah).
The name Astaroth was ultimately derived from that of 2nd millennium BC Phoenician goddess Astarte, [1] an equivalent of the Babylonian Ishtar, and the earlier Sumerian Inanna. She is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible in the forms Ashtoreth (singular) and Ashtaroth (plural, in reference to multiple statues of it). This latter form was directly ...
Inanna [a] is the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of love, war, and fertility. She is also associated with sensuality, procreation, divine law, and political power.Originally worshipped in Sumer, she was known by the Akkadian Empire, Babylonians, and Assyrians as Ishtar [b] (and occasionally the logogram 饞寢饞伅).
Esther (Hebrew: 讗侄住职转值旨专) is a female given name known from the Jewish queen Esther, eponymous heroine of the Book of Esther. According to the Hebrew Bible, queen Esther was born with the name 讛植讚址住指旨讛 Hadassah ("Myrtle"). Her name was changed to Esther to hide her identity upon becoming queen of Persia.
The Hebrew Bible uses two different words for prostitute, zonah (讝讜谞讛) [35] and kedeshah (or qedesha) (拽讚砖讛). [35] The word zonah simply meant an ordinary prostitute or loose woman. [35] But the word kedeshah literally means set apart (in feminine form), from the Semitic root Q-D-Sh (拽讚砖) meaning holy, consecrated or set ...