03108nam 2200637 450 991078951750332120230607230937.01-283-19531-397866131953190-567-23212-3(CKB)2670000000106306(EBL)742311(OCoLC)741691675(SSID)ssj0000524597(PQKBManifestationID)11360361(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000524597(PQKBWorkID)10500178(PQKB)11539278(MiAaPQ)EBC742311(Au-PeEL)EBL742311(CaPaEBR)ebr10869430(CaONFJC)MIL319531(OCoLC)893335489(EXLCZ)99267000000010630620010828h20012001 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrOnly one God? monotheism in ancient Israel and the veneration of the goddess Asherah /Bob Becking [and three others]London ;New York :Sheffield Academic Press,[2001]©20011 online resource (232 p.)The biblical seminar ;77Description based upon print version of record.1-84127-199-3 Includes bibliographical references (pages [202]-222) and indexes.Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; I have Blessed you by YHWH of Samaria and his Asherah: Texts with Religious Elements from the Soil Archive of Ancient Israel; Archaeological Traces of Cult in Ancient Israel; El, the God of Israel-Israel, the People of YHWH: On the Origins of Ancient Israelite Yahwism; Asherah outside Israel; The Gods, in Whom They Trusted ... Assyrian Evidence for Iconic Polytheism in Ancient Israel?; Women and Religion in the Old Testament; Only One God: On Possible Implications for Biblical Theology; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of AuthorsThe 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 neighbourhood offer a quite different impression. Two issues in particular raised by these are the existence of a female consort, Asherah, and the implication for monotheism; and the proliferation of pictorial representations that may contradict the biblical ban on images. Was thBiblical seminar ;77.MonotheismPalestineHistory of doctrinesJudaismHistoryTo 70 A.DAsherah (Semitic deity)MonotheismHistory of doctrines.JudaismHistoryAsherah (Semitic deity)296.3/11Becking BobMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789517503321Only one God3785884UNINA