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 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 ...

You might know him as Yahweh, Allah or God. But on this fact, Jews, Muslims and Christians, the people of the great Abrahamic religions, are agreed: there is only one of Him. He is a solitary figure, ...

Female figurines and inscribed prayers to a "divine couple" found in temples in Israel suggest that the “one God” of the Bible may not have been entirely alone. A recent excavation in Tel Motza, not ...

Current issues are now on the Chicago Journals website. Read the latest issue.The Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (BASOR) is a leader among peer-reviewed academic journals of the ...

The rise of Yahweh and the decline of the old gods of Israel: El, Baal, Asherah, and the Host of Heaven In the Book of Deuteronomy, a god divides humanity “according to the number of the gods,” ...

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 ...

Robert Wright, he of the provocative new book “The Evolution of God,” poses the question in this excerpt. (He says “wife.” I think he’s pushing too fast, too soon.) Anyhoo, Wright says Israel’s ...

Most of the Greek and Egyptian Gods were married. We know that Jesus might have been married as proved by a faded fourth-century fragment disclosed by a Harvard historian. Containing just eight lines, ...

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 ...