God Had A Wife

[David Morris]

http://news.discovery.com/history/god-wife-yahweh-asherah-110318.html

God had a wife, Asherah, whom the Book of Kings suggests was worshiped
alongside Yahweh in his temple in Israel, according to an Oxford
scholar.

In 1967, Raphael Patai was the first historian to mention that the
ancient Israelites worshiped both Yahweh and Asherah. The theory has
gained new prominence due to the research of Francesca Stavrakopoulou,
who began her work at Oxford and is now a senior lecturer in the
department of Theology and Religion at the University of Exeter.

"You might know him as Yahweh, Allah or God. But on this fact, Jews,
Muslims and Christians, the people of the great Abrahamic religions,
are agreed: There is only one of Him," writes Stavrakopoulou in a
statement released to the British media. "He is a solitary figure, a
single, universal creator, not one God among many ... or so we like to
believe."

"After years of research specializing in the history and religion of
Israel, however, I have come to a colorful and what could seem, to
some, uncomfortable conclusion that God had a wife," she added.