15 September 2014 Apparently fake god had a fake wife...lol Niko Goran Apparently fake god had a fake wife...lol Francesca Stavrakopoulou(from the article) Dr Stavrakopoulou, who has a doctorate in theology from the University of Oxford. She said: I see what I do as a branch of history like any other.’ In a recent article she wrote: Archaeological evidence including inscriptions, figurines and ancient texts as well as details in the Bible, indicate not just that he was one of several worshipped in ancient Israel, but that he was also coupled with a goddess. She was worshipped alongside him in his temple in Jerusalem. I spent several years specialising in the cultural and social contexts of the Bible and I discovered that Yahweh, the God we have come to know, had to see off a number of competitors to achieve his position as the one and only god of the ancient Israelites. The biblical texts name many of them: El, Baal, Molek, Asherah. Despite Yahwehs assertion in the Ten Commandments that You shall have no other gods before me, it appears these gods were worshipped alongside Him, and the Bible acknowledges this.Claims: Dr Stavrakopoulou with a reconstruction of a biblical inscription Far more significant is the Bibles admission that the goddess Asherah was worshipped in Yahwehs temple in Jerusalem. In the Book Of Kings, were told that a statue of Asherah was housed in the temple and that female temple personnel wove ritual textiles for her. In fact, although the Bible condemns all of these practices, the biblical texts suggest that goddess worship was a thriving feature of high-status religion in Jerusalem. What, then, was her relationship to Yahweh? Ancient texts, amulets and figurines unearthed here reveal that she was a powerful fertility goddess. But perhaps most significant of all, Asherah was also the wife of El, the high god at Ugarit - a god who shares much in common with Yahweh. Given the evidence within the Bible that she was worshipped in the temple in Jerusalem, might she have played the role of a divine wife in ancient Israel too? dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1364018/Atheist-Dr-Francesca-Stavrakopoulout-BBC-face-religion.html
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