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...

It is possible that the graffiti stem from different periods. Text [12D] was apparently incised on the walls of the anti-chamber on the same level. It is a good example of the curses through which one tried to protect the tombs against violation by tomb robbers. The first graffito [12A] is reminiscent of Isa. 54:4 ‘Your Saviour is the Holy One of Israel, God of the whole earth he is called’, but also of YHWH’s title ‘Lord of the whole earth’ or ‘Lord of the whole country (of Israel)’, which occurs

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