Only One God?: Monotheism in Ancient Israel and the Veneration of the Goddess Asherah (Biblia.com)

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The view of ancient Israelite religion as monotheistic has long been traditional in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, religions that have elaborated in their own way the biblical image of a single male deity. But recent archaeological findings of texts and images from the Iron Age kingdoms of Israel and Judah and their neighborhood offer a quite different impression. Two issues in particular...

I HAVE BLESSED YOU BY YHWH OF SAMARIA AND HIS ASHERAH: TEXTS WITH RELIGIOUS ELEMENTS FROM THE SOIL ARCHIVE OF ANCIENT ISRAEL: MEINDERT DIJKSTRA Meindert Dijkstra Archaeological excavations in Palestine often produce inscriptions. Every now and then, this will be a fragment of a monumental inscription, but more often seals, stamps on jars, or on bullae sealing documents now lost and above all ostraca. Ostraca are sherds inscribed with ink or incised with a stylus. The majority of these documents are

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