In old world religions, it was the standard that a god would have a female consort, the female to the male side. Yahweh, the God of Christianity and Judaism was no exception. Found in both non-Israelite documents and from Palestine and Hebrew documents, it has been made obvious that Yawheh also had a wife: Ashtoret (Anat). She was worshipped along side Yaweh until almost the third century BC.
The question is, then, if a female goddess was along side the male God, how would that change the religion of today? Do you think both the religion and the societies would have stayed patriarchal for so long?
2007-09-20 17:25:45 · 6 answers · asked by ? 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Correction: Her name was Asherah, not Ashtoret. I confused my spelling. Thank you for the correction.
2007-09-20 17:46:37 · update #1
Yeah. Well you can believe that if you want. There have always been people who have mixed pagan faith with Judeo-Christian faith, but that doesn't mean that this mixture is true. Yahweh is God and there is no other.
2007-09-20 17:29:55 · answer #1 · answered by William D 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Sorry, Fereshte. Ashtoreth was the consort of Baal, not Yahweh. Ashtoreth and Baal were Idols that turned Israelites away from God, because their temples employed male and female shrine prostitutes. And the land of Israel wasn't called Palestine until the emperor Trajan named it that merely to offend the Jews.
2007-09-20 17:38:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
asherah is only one of the other gods the ancient israelites worshipped. anybody who has ever read the bible knows that the israelites pretty much spent more time worshipping other gods than they did worshipping their own. archaeological record obviously shows this to be true. most of the bible is a call for the israelites to leave the idols behind, and return to their faith in G-d alone.
2007-09-20 18:09:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A careful reading of Proverbs 8 will reveal Yahweh's wife. It's still all in the bible, you just have to know where.
2007-09-20 17:33:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It would make it polytheistic instead of monotheistic and would be like all other paganistic faiths.
Blessed Be.
2007-09-20 18:25:33 · answer #5 · answered by Zero Cool 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No Jew believes that.
2007-09-20 17:30:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋