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Footnotes

1.

These discussions also include a reference to “YHWH and his asherah” found at Khirbet el-Qom (Biblical Makkedah) near Jerusalem. See Shmuel Ahituv, “Did God Really Have a Wife?BAR 32:05. See also André Lemaire, “Who or What Was Yahweh’s Asherah?BAR 10:06.

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See Hershel Shanks, ed., Ancient Israel—From Abraham to the Roman Destruction of the Temple, 3rd ed. (Washington, DC: Biblical Archaeology Society, 2011), p. 159.

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See Hershel Shanks, “Egypt’s Chief Archaeologist Defends His Rights (And Wrongs),BAR 37:03.

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Ze’ev Meshel, “Did Yahweh Have a Consort?BAR 05:02.

Endnotes

1.

William G. Dever, Did God Have a Wife? (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005).

2.

Beck’s contribution to this volume is a reprint of her 1982 article in Tel Aviv: Pirhiya Beck, “The Drawings from Horvat Teman (Kuntillet ‘Ajrud),” Tel Aviv 9 (1982), p. 38.

3.

Beck, “The Drawings from Horvat Teman,” p. 38.