Only One God?

Monotheism in Ancient Israel and the Veneration of the Goddess Asherah

By: Bob Becking, Meindert Dijkstra, Marjo Korpel, Karel Vriezen

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Paperback | 29 January 2002 | Edition Number 1

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This book introduces the relevant evidence and assesses its significance for our understanding of Israelite religion and for biblical theology. 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, Asherah, and the implication for monotheism; and the proliferation of pictorial representations that may contradict the biblical ban on images. Was the religion of ancient Israel really as the Bible would have us believe? This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to these issues, presenting the relevant inscriptions and discussing their possible impact for Israelite monotheism, the role of women in the cult, and biblical theology.

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Preface	p. 7
Abbreviations	p. 8
Introduction	p. 11
I have Blessed you by YHWH of Samaria and his Asherah: Texts with Religious Elements from the Soil Archive of Ancient Israel	p. 17
Archaeological Traces of Cult in Ancient Israel	p. 45
El, the God of Israel - Israel, the People of YHWH: On the Origins of Ancient Israelite Yahwism	p. 81
Asherah outside Israel	p. 127
The Gods, in Whom They Trusted ... Assyrian Evidence for Iconic Polytheism in Ancient Israel?	p. 151
Women and Religion in the Old Testament	p. 164
Only One God: On Possible Implications for Biblical Theology	p. 189
Bibliography	p. 202
Index of References	p. 223
Index of Authors	p. 229
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