Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>]

  Dear Elio Jucci
 
  Scholars constantly, and rather desperately, need new fodder for their 
intellectual well being. No wonder therefore  the great to do about the two 
mentions of an asherah (rather than an Asherah as a proper noun) recently 
found. And for good reason, some would say: wasn't this deity denounced by 
many prophets and narrators in the HB?
 
  On the other hand, and this is the point of my communication now, the same 
scholars tend somehow to ignore all extra-biblical epigraphic evidence of 
YHWH alone, and if one includes the divine element YH, YW etc. in theophoric 
personal names, also in extra-biblical evidence, the ratio of the YHWH alone 
as against the evidence of the two asheroth amounts to hundreds to two.
 
  Uri

Jucci <eljucci AT unipv.it> wrote:
Mark S. Smith, Early History of God: Yahweh and the Other Deities in 
Ancient Israel (Second Edition and New Introduction), Preface to the 
Second Edition
http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/early_history1.htm
http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/early_history2.htm
http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/early_history3.htm

Jacques Berlinerblau, Official Religion and Popular Religion in 
Pre-Exilic Ancient Israel
http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/berlinerblau1.htm

Mark S. Smith, The Origins of Biblical Monotheism: Israel's Polytheistic 
Background and the Ugaritic Texts (Oxford/New York: Oxford University 
Press, 2001)
http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/MSmith_BiblicalMonotheism.htm

THE BAAL (AND THE ASHERAH?) IN SEVENTH-CENTURY JUDAH
http://pages.sbcglobal.net/zimriel/Baal/

J. Severino Croatto, La Diosa Asherá en el antiguo Israel: el aporte 
epigráfico de la arqueología
11.02.01 http://www.severinocroatto.com.ar/media/publicaciones/2.doc

Carole R. Fontaine Women In Judaism 2002, Review: Judith M. Hadley, The 
Cult of Asherah in Ancient Israel and Judah. University of Cambridge 
Oriental Publications, 57. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000

Frédéric Gangloff, Yhwh ou les Déesses-Arbres? (Osée Xiv 6-8)
Vetus Testamentum XLIX, 1, 1999, 34-48
J.A. EMERTON, “Yahweh And His Asherah”: The Goddess Or Her Symbol?
Vetus Testamentum XLIX,3 1999, 315-337



Elio Jucci
SETH - Semitica et Theologica
http://dobc.unipv.it/SETH/index.htm
http://it.geocities.com/eljucci/filosem/
http://www.angelfire.com/wv/bible/filosem/index.htm

"Ex magno amoris incendio tantus uirtutis decor in animo crescit ..."



Dora Smith wrote:

>married to Asherah.
>
>OK.
> 
>


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Uri is correct- until we apply the text critical method here and say 
"manuscripts are weighed, not counted".  It may indeed be true that 
hundreds of inscriptions and scrawlings and scratchings have Yahweh 
alone.  But, that one or two have him hooked up with Asherah is 
nonetheless important.  It demonstrates that Yahweh was seen to have a 
spouse (like many other deities of the ANE) at least is some quarters.  
Further, it demonstrates that the HB's suggestion thatYahweh is "unique" 
in this regard would not wash in some places.

Uri is, again, correct that many scholars make their living out of the 
sensational.  Lord knows Shanks would be out of business with BAR if 
there weren't such stories.  But, that noted, the fact of the evidence 
is out there is not diminished by the greed or fame factor.

Best,
and to you too Uri!

Jim

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