God Had A Wife

[Humberto Torofuerte]

Eat your heart out, Dan Brown.

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 8:50 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.