... MaybeThere is something very strange about your method of arguing here. You start with a hypothesis that "perhaps Kuntillet Ajrud was the home of the Yahwist", and give some very circumstantial evidence why this might be possible. But then you look at the evidence which should immediately rule out this hypothesis, the clear fact that the concept of Yahweh having a consort Asherah is entirely repugnant to the authors of every strand of the Pentateuch, but you don't allow this to be evidence against your hypothesis. Rather, you argue from your unproved hypothesis to a need to revise the evidence of the actual text supposedly written by the Yahwist.
the Yahwist - traditionally a source written in the "South" after the
division of the
Monarchy and before the Assyrian conquest - wrote J at Kuntillet
Ajrud. ... All of this is rather indirect, but I think
it gives enough
basis to argue that perhaps Kuntillet Ajrud was the home of the Yahwist.
Would
we claim that the Yahwist's view of Yahweh was "odd and aberrant"?
So if we strike out the part about the establishment, what we get is: "some
folk
in some parts of Israel thought that Yahweh had a consort". That's
not much, but
it's perhaps all we can say.
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