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Asherah: Goddesses in Ugarit, Israel and the Old Testament is unavailable, but you can change that!

This volume contains a comprehensive discussion of texts concerning the goddess Asherah, as she is portrayed in texts from Ugarit (both epic and ritual texts, as well as the lists of sacrifices), Israel (the Khirbet el-Qom and Kuntillet Ajrud inscriptions) and the Old Testament. The main theses of the book are that two or more divinities carrying the same name but separated by several hundred...

The second translation seems to be the most satisfactory with regards to lines 2–4, since it presents us with a uniform structure. The only problem is that while the object—verb—preposition parallel is complete, it seems to be more difficult to find the parallel between the actual words hiding in the category of objects: rbm, dk ym and ṣḥrmt. If, however, we bring the object from line 1, bn aṯrt, into the discussion, it is possible to see the four objects as being in either direct or antithetical
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