Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] Explain translation of "Asherah" as "grove" in 2Kings 23.7?
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 05:23:43 -0400
Could it have anything to do with the Bride of YHVH -- Israel?
-- slade
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Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Explain translation of "Asherah" as "grove" in
2Kings 23.7?
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.