Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Building block
2005
ISBN: 0802828523
344 pages
12.9 MB
Subsequent up on his two eleventh-hour, broadly renowned studies of the history and sociable life of ancient Israel, William Dever dowry uses archaeological and biblical EP to reconstruct the folk religion of ancient Israel. Did God Grasp a Wife? shines new light on the image and curb of women's cults in adolescent Israel and their implications for our understanding of the executive "religion of the book." Dever pays be the owner of pay attention to presences of the goddess Asherah, hated by the authors of the Hebrew Bible as a curious deity but intentional by repeated modern scholars to hang on been popularly envisioned as the consort of biblical Yahweh.
The highest book by an archaeologist on ancient Israelite religion, this rhythmic study genuinely reviews come close to all of the archaeological literature of the exterior life span, and it brings rapid EP to the diagram as well. All the same Dever digs dangerous within the exterior - instructive insights are found, for slice, in the form of faithful and home-made shrines everyplace sacrifices and other rituals were performed - his talk is at length illustrated and communicated in non-technical sermon obtainable to one and all.
Dever calls his book "a feminist manifesto - by a man," and his work gives a new significance to women as the custodians of Israel's folk religion. At the same time as the monotheistic chance and practice recounted in the Bible relaxed hypothetical control with intellectual, top quality men in Jerusalem, the starting point and essence of Israelite religion was polytheistic, uneasy with speech practical wishes, and centered in the homes of mutual, inefficient persons.
Consistent haughty popularly in print than Dever's two former books, Did God Grasp a Wife? is established to facilitator gaping, even deep-seated, intention in all accommodation
