Did God Have a Wife? - The BAS Library
Login
Home > Magazines > BAR > September/October 2006

Did God Have a Wife?

By Shmuel Ahituv

Did God Have a Wife? Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel

Please join the BAS Library or become an All Access member of BAS to gain full access to this article and so much more.

Join the BAS Library!

Already a library member? Log in here.

Institution user? Log in with your IP address or Username

Footnotes

1.

YHWH, called the tetragrammaton, are the four Hebrew letters that make up the name. How it was pronounced is uncertain.

2.

Phoenicians are the first-millennium B.C.E. successors to the Canaanites.

Endnotes

1.

The lamed preceding Ashera in the text (meaning to, for or as) is pointed with an a, thus la’ashera, making it impossible to decide if it means “to/for/as ‘asherah” or “to/for/as the Asherah.”