Endnote 2 – Was Yahweh Worshiped as the Sun?

See, for example, Mark S. Smith, Early History of God (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1990), pp. 88–94. Smith is thus inclined to believe that the reference to the goddess Asherah in 1 Kings 18:19 was originally a reference to the goddess Astarte and that other apparent references to the goddess could rather be to a mere cultic symbol, an idolatrous entity that received offerings.