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...

The confession that Israel’s God, YHWH is ʾēl rāḥûm wāḥānûn ʾerek ʾappayîm werab-ḥesed wāʾemet (Exod. 34:6; Ps. 103:8) ‘the compassionate and gracious El, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness’ is not an image of god that came out of the blue. It has a history of reception in Christian tradition (Lk. 1:78; 2 Cor. 1:3; Jas 5:11) and in the fundamental Islamic praise of Allah al-raḥman wal-raḥim ‘God, the merciful and compassionate’, as it has a prehistory. Of old, El was the

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