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Only One God?

Monotheism in Ancient Israel and the Veneration of the Goddess Asherah

by etc., Bob Becking

  • Paperback
  • 232 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • 15.5 x 23.2 x 1.6 cm

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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.
Only One God? and Israel's Past: Studies on History and Religion in Ancient Israel and Judah
Israel's Past: Studies on History and Religion in Ancient Israel and JudahOnly One God?

  • Author

    Bob Becking

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

  • Published

    February 2002

  • Weight

    332g

  • Page Count

    232

  • Dimensions

    15.5 x 23.2 x 1.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9781841271996

  • ISBN-10

    1841271993

  • Eden Code

    1212893

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