Long hidden or dismissed, Asherah was revered as a fertility goddess and “Queen of Heaven,” with references to her appearing in both temple inscriptions and early biblical texts.

God had a wife, Asherah, whom the Book of Kings suggests was worshipped alongside Yahweh in his temple in Israel, according to an Oxford scholar. In 1967, Raphael Patai was the first historian to ...

The Judeo-Christian God may have been married, according to a British theologian, who says the Almighty, also known as 'Yahweh', had a wife - a goddess named 'Asherah'.

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 ...

Early versions of the Bible apparently featured a fertility godess, Asherah, who may have been God's wife, at least according to one British theologian.Back in 1967, historian Raphael Patai ...

Until the discovery in the early 20th Century of an ancient Canaanite coastal city called Ugarit in what is now modern-day Syria, very little was known about the goddess Asherah.

The carvings likely depict ancient fertility goddesses, such as Asherah or Ashtarte, Amihai Mazar, an archaeology professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, told Live Science."[They] were ...

A leading academic has claimed that God has a wife who was edited out of the Bible. Atheist Dr Francesca Stavrakopoulou says that the Almighty, known as Yahweh, had a partner called Asherah who ...

This might not exactly be the version of the Bible you remember from Sunday school. Early versions of the Bible apparently featured a fertility godess, Asherah, who may have been God's wife, at ...