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'. Francesca Stavrakopoulou of the ...

Receive emails about upcoming NOVA programs and related content, as well as featured reporting about current events through a science lens. William Dever: From the beginnings of what we call biblical ...

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 least ...

The recently revealed "evidence" that Jesus had a wife deserves those quotation marks. As various people have argued, a fragment of text written centuries after the crucifixion doesn't carry much ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The Journal of Biblical Literature (JBL) is a quarterly periodical that promotes critical and academic biblical scholarship.

Posted: August 7, 2025 | Last updated: August 7, 2025 YHWH...the God of the Israelites in the Hebrew Bible, and you shall have no other gods before him. But did some ancient Israelites worship another ...