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 ...
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 ...