See Ruth Hestrin, “The Lachish Ewer and the Tree ’Asherah,’” Israel Exploration Journal 37 (1987), pp. 212–223, and “Understanding Asherah—Exploring Semitic Iconography,” BAR 17:05; and S.M. Olyan, Asherah and the Cult of Yahweh in Israel (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1988).