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Asherah (ăsh`ərə) or Asheroth (-rŏth), Canaanite fertility goddess and the wooden cult symbol that represented her. She is the consort of El in the Ugaritic texts. Several passages in the Bible may refer to the planting of a tree as a symbol of Asherah, or the setting up of a wooden object as an asherah—the Hebrew words for "tree" and "wood" are the same. Asherah mother of the gods; counterpart of Gaea. [Canaanite Myth.: Benét, 57] See : Motherhood How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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But immediately McKinlay wonders how the figure of Wisdom, so positively represented in Proverbs (and in which she sees traces of the feminine divine), escaped the anti-feminine polemic that was directed against Asherah. The Kuntillet 'Ajrud and Qirbet el-Qom inscriptions refer to Asherah's cult symbol rather than the goddess herself, but in some syncretistic circles Asherah was indeed Yahweh's consort. The rabbis who argue today that we should keep the territories for 'religious reasons' are not carrying on the tradition of Elijah and the prophets of God but rather of the 850 prop hets of Baal and Asherah 'who ate at the table of Jezebel. |
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