Archaeologists embrace bare accommodation shrines, china doll of females with exposed breasts, and an print that mentions "Yahweh and his Asherah." These and other discoveries may advocate that in pre-exilic Israel award was a type of amazement that included the respect of the goddess.
Michaelson provides added evidence he says was misplaced by Dever. According to Michaelson, the "Zohar's use of 'Asherah' as a name for the Shechinah, the female aspect of God," may advocate the image of the divine female in Israel.
Michaelson similarly wrote in his review that "In the Jewish tradition, the highest patent symbol of the Envisage Feminine may be none other than the Torah itself." He said: "Called the 'Tree of Nature (yet substitute euphemism for Asherah), the Torah's symbolism enacts the revelation of the God. 'The ark, the Devout of Holies, is alienated by a hide, later than in the Ridge, and in back it is the Torah, voguish a silver headdress and velvet dress, always referred to in the female. After that we bring her out with finished civility, kiss her, undress her, open her up and activate the ritual of knowledge in the biblical knowledge.'"
Michaelson's review of these two books may be controversial, but it is difference reading. In the face of I not backdrop with countless of his conclusions, the fact crust that Asherah played an initial responsibility in the clerical life of countless run in Israel.
To read Michaelson's review of these two books, snap indoors.
Claude Mariottini
