Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>]

Dear Peter,

> > Asherah was the wife of Yahweh. ...
>
> Not in the Bible, where such a thought would be just as repugnant 
> and detestable as temple prostitution. As I understand it, this idea 
> is based on a disputable interpretation of a single inscription from 
> outside the land of Israel. Some people had strange religious ideas 
> then, as now, but you should quote as unqualified fact neither 
> everything you read on the Internet nor everything you read on 
> one-off ancient inscriptions.

HH: I think there are a couple of such inscriptions, and Kitchen 
seemed fairly confident that such was the interpretation. But he 
agreed with Peter that this was the sort of aberrant Yahwism that a 
king like Josiah was bent on stamping out.

                                    Yours,
                                    Harold Holmyard

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