Tag: Asherah

• God’s Life Story

  When people give thought to the word ‘God’, they may well have sophisticated notions about its meaning, and might use such words as infinite, eternal, all-powerful and so on. But let’s step back a bit, and focus on the Jewish-Christian God. If we journey back in time, we discover that he has a ‘life history’…

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  2nd Mar 2023

  Christianity, Hebrew Bible, History, Literature, Mythology, Old Testament, Religion

  Archeology, Asherah, Canaanites, Christian, El, God, Goddess, Israel, Jewish, Ras Shamra

• Genesis and Ugarit

  From 1939 onwards, the excavation of a mound on the Mediterranean coast of northern Syria, (called Ras Shamra), uncovered the ancient Canaanite city of Ugarit. Included in the finds were tablets containing texts recording the religious beliefs of its people, which show that Ugarit and Israel shared a common linguistic and literary heritage, and provide…

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  5th Mar 2022

  Christianity, Hebrew Bible, Literature, Mythology, Old Testament, Poetry, Religion

  Asherah, Baal, Canaan, Israel, Myth, Psalms, Ugarit, Yahweh