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  • From: Jim West <jwest AT highland.net>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] re: their altars
  • Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 11:16:56 -0500

Dora Smith wrote:

Just one thing it sounds like you may not be aware of;

Asherah was Yahweh's wife. She was also Ba'al's wife.

Hold up there Dora. You make it sound like the "popular" religion of the folk at Kuntillet Ajrud represented the same religious sensibilities as those held by the priests and prophets in Jerusalem. Just because some "am ha-aretz" hold an odd and aberrant view of Yahweh does not mean we are allowed to make such a stunning blanket statement as "Asherah was Yahweh's wife". That's rubbish. At most what can be said is "some folk in some parts of Palestine thought that Yahweh had a consort- but this was clearly not the view of the establishment".

Jim

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