Nope.. Egypt dominated Canaan up thru Joshua and Judges.
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Nope.. Egypt dominated Canaan up thru Joshua and Judges.
When archaeologists unearthed a treasure trove of Canaanite stories and other writings in Ugarit, in modern day Syria, they discovered that the mysterious “Asherah” was not an object, but a Goddess: the mother goddess of the Canaanites. When archaeologists discovered Her in Israel as well, a whole new picture of early Hebrew religion began to emerge. The argument is straightforward: 1. Asherah was a known Canaanite Goddess, the Mother Goddess and wife of the Father God. 2. The name is mentioned repeatedly as having been worshiped by the Israelites, to the dismay of monotheists. 3. Her name is found in inscriptions with Yahweh and 4. A mother goddess image is found frequently in the homes of ancient Israel. 5. She was worshiped, according to the Bible, in the woods with Baal AND in Yahweh’s temple. The common sense interpretation is that Israelites worshiped the mother goddess Asherah. And that She was the wife of whichever male God had the upper hand at the time: El, or Baal, or Yahweh. Israelite religion was not much different from Canaanite religion. The gods vied for supremacy, but the goddess remained.
Since archaeologists in the Holy Land tended to be religious and to enter the field of biblical archaeology in order to unearth evidence substantiating the Bible’s story, it has taken awhile for the plain truth to become clear. Gradually, however, more objective archaeologists, such as Dever, are making headway in proving Asherah’s case. The Bible says Hebrews kept worshiping Asherah; the archaeological record confirms it. What the Bible doesn’t say, and the archaeological record shows, is that Asherah was a mother goddess.
In Ugarit, She was known as Athiratu Yammi, She who Treads on the Sea. This suggests She was responsible for ending a time of chaos represented by the primordial sea and beginning the process of creation. The Sea God, or Sea Serpent Yam is the entity upon which She trod. In a particularly bizarre and suggestive passage in the Bible, 2 Kings 18:4, one monotheistic reformer, pursuing the typical course of smashing sacred stones and cutting down Asherahs records this additional fact: He broke into pieces the bronze snake Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had been burning incense to it. (It was called Nehushtan.)
continued with pictures of the clay icons.
https://thequeenofheaven.wordpress.com/2010/10/27/asherah-part-i-the-lost-bride-of-yahweh/
PostmodernProphet
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you realize the link you provided says that the claim is ridiculous, right?....
PostmodernProphet
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like I said, your choice.....
I know what they said.. Watch the video series.. She is brilliant.
PostmodernProphet
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actually it was the Philistines they were fighting during the era of the Judges......you know, the ones Sampson dropped the house on........
David defeated them.......
PostmodernProphet
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I watched the first one......had a good laugh.....far from brilliant.....made me wonder where on earth she got her degree......
Yup...I get those quotes you offered that there is only the one god.
But...
“There is none like you among the gods, O Lord” Psalms:86:8
“For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; he is to be revered above all gods” Psalms 96:4
“Our Lord is above all gods” Psalms 135:5
“He is exalted above all gods” Psalms: 97:7
Lots more!
Perhaps the next discussion should be about the fact that there are NO contradictions in the Bible.
Drawing on ancient inscriptions that mention “Yahweh and his asherah,” some scholars (notably William Dever in Did God Have a Wife? Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel) have in recent years posited that the ancient Israelites worshipped Asherah and other deities alongside Yahweh, the God of the Old Testament.
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The inscriptions found refer not only to Yahweh but to El and Baal, and two include the phrases "Yahweh of Samaria and his Asherah" and "Yahweh of Teman and his Asherah."[20] The references to Samaria (capital of the kingdom of Israel) and Teman (in Edom) suggest that Yahweh had a temple in Samaria, while raising questions about the relationship between Yahweh and Kaus, the national god of Edom.[21] The "Asherah" is most likely a cultic object, although the relationship of this object (a stylised tree perhaps) to Yahweh and to the goddess Asherah, consort of El, is unclear.[22] It has been suggested that the Israelites might have considered Asherah as a consort of Baal due to the anti-Asherah ideology which was influenced by the Deuteronomistic History at the later period of Monarchy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asherah
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The inscriptions found refer not only to Yahweh but to El and Baal, and two include the phrases "Yahweh of Samaria and his Asherah" and "Yahweh of Teman and his Asherah."[20] The references to Samaria (capital of the kingdom of Israel) and Teman (in Edom) suggest that Yahweh had a temple in Samaria, while raising questions about the relationship between Yahweh and Kaus, the national god of Edom.[21] The "Asherah" is most likely a cultic object, although the relationship of this object (a stylised tree perhaps) to Yahweh and to the goddess Asherah, consort of El, is unclear.[22] It has been suggested that the Israelites might have considered Asherah as a consort of Baal due to the anti-Asherah ideology which was influenced by the Deuteronomistic History at the later period of Monarchy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asherah
PostmodernProphet
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anything anyone worships is a god......Watermark worships anime........you worship your dick.......doesn't change the fact there is only one God.......
PostmodernProphet
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.....nuff said......
Can you do that here? Change someone else's quotes? Is that your Christianity showing itself?
Leonthecat
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Man created God in his own image, to placate his ignorance, uncertainty and fears.
At the end of Manasseh’s long and successful reign, his son briefly ruled, and then his grandson came to power. Manasseh’s grandson Josiah, who ruled from around 640 to 609 BCE, is the last king I’ll mention in this episode, and, by all rights, one of the most important people in human history.
Why is this so? It’s simple. During the reign of King Josiah, particularly during the 620s, Biblical scholars generally agree that a huge portion of the Old Testament was written.
King Josiah, like his great-grandfather King Hezekiah, believed in the exclusive worship of Yahweh. Like his great-grandfather Hezekiah, Josiah wanted the Jerusalem temple, and not any other place in the kingdom of Judah, to be the site where animal sacrifices were made to Yahweh.
In a general movement that had been growing since the fall of the northern kingdom of Israel, King Josiah wanted the Canaanites to abandon their polytheistic ancestral traditions and bow to a single god. The geography, the historical references, and the anachronisms of the Old Testament all generally suggest that much of it was composed in Jerusalem during the reign of King Josiah. He is spoken of in glowing terms, as a king prophesized to deliver Judah from its wayward tendencies. He is praised more highly than any other king in the Bible, except maybe for David.
http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-015-canaan
Why is this so? It’s simple. During the reign of King Josiah, particularly during the 620s, Biblical scholars generally agree that a huge portion of the Old Testament was written.
King Josiah, like his great-grandfather King Hezekiah, believed in the exclusive worship of Yahweh. Like his great-grandfather Hezekiah, Josiah wanted the Jerusalem temple, and not any other place in the kingdom of Judah, to be the site where animal sacrifices were made to Yahweh.
In a general movement that had been growing since the fall of the northern kingdom of Israel, King Josiah wanted the Canaanites to abandon their polytheistic ancestral traditions and bow to a single god. The geography, the historical references, and the anachronisms of the Old Testament all generally suggest that much of it was composed in Jerusalem during the reign of King Josiah. He is spoken of in glowing terms, as a king prophesized to deliver Judah from its wayward tendencies. He is praised more highly than any other king in the Bible, except maybe for David.
http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-015-canaan
PostmodernProphet
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yes, but please use the NSFW label if you attach pics......
The Old Testament is an anthology. It’s an anthology that started coming into being in the historical circumstances we’ve discussed today, in the kingdom of Judah, in the late 600s, in the midst of genocides, and forced relocations, and generations of broken dreams. And so if its worldview seems dark, and if its god appears exacting, or pitiless, and if its condemnations of other nations and ethnicities seem unsettling, then I think history, again, and again, and again, and again, and again is the answer that unlocks most of the questions we have about the Old Testament when we read it for the first time.
The Hebrew Bible isn’t the product of a happy, serene century. A huge amount of it is the product of a deep, multigenerational cauldron of agony and desolation. It’s the stories, poems, and reflections of people who saw their whole way of life facing extinction, and refused to go down.
The Hebrew Bible isn’t the product of a happy, serene century. A huge amount of it is the product of a deep, multigenerational cauldron of agony and desolation. It’s the stories, poems, and reflections of people who saw their whole way of life facing extinction, and refused to go down.
Show some class, PP. It shouldn't be all that difficult for you to do.
Thank you for that very interesting blind guess about the REALITY.
Yeah...you can do it. It IS allowed, for some reason, in this forum. And PP does it often.
It is the kind of thing someone with no ethics or moral compass would do...but, as I said, PP does it often.
So anything goes.............
No...not for people with pride and self-esteem. But for some...they do crap like that.
DO NOT let him lead you into doing the same in return. It's be a victory for him...and there is no way he deserves anything like that.