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...

inscriptions in allegedly Phoenician script mentions YHWH, the God of Israel. It is, of course, not impossible that a Phoenician visitor used this divine name. ‘Phoenician script’ however, was also used in the Northern Kingdom, so that it is equally possible that scribes from different scribal schools were appointed in this office. The use of ‘Phoenician script’ suggests at the least once more the Northern Israelite origin of the occupation of this road station. These observations lead us to the

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