Only One God?: Monotheism in Ancient Israel and the Veneration of the Goddess Asherah

by Marjo C.A. Korpel, Bob Becking, Karel Vriezen, et al.

Book Overview

The 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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841271993
• ISBN13: 9781841271996
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"