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provides historical and archaeological evidence for an earlier form of hebrew worship with both male and female gods including a 20th century discovery of a hebrew temple dedicated to both yahweh and the warrior goddess anat explores the hebrew pantheon of goddesses including yahweh s wife asherah goddess of fertility and childbirth shows how both jesus and his great rival simon magus were attempting to restore the ancient goddess worshipping religion of the israelites despite what jews and christians and indeed most people believe the ancient israelites venerated several deities besides the old testament god yahweh including the goddess asherah yahweh s wife who was worshipped openly in the jerusalem temple after the reforms of king josiah and prophet jeremiah the religion recognized yahweh alone and history was rewritten to make it appear that it had always been that way the worship of asherah and other goddesses was now heresy and so the status of women was downgraded and they were blamed for god s wrath however as lynn picknett and clive prince reveal the spiritual legacy of the jewish goddesses and the sacred feminine lives on drawing on historical research they examine how goddess worship thrived in early judaism and included a pantheon of goddesses they share new evidence for an earlier form of hebrew worship that prayed to both male and female gods including a 20th century archaeological discovery of a hebrew temple dedicated to both yahweh and the goddess anat uncovering the sacred feminine in early christianity the authors show how in the first century ad both jesus and his great rival simon magus were attempting to restore the goddess worshipping religion of the israelites the authors reveal how both men accorded great honor to the women they adored and who traveled with them as priestesses jesus s mary magdalene and simon s helen but as had happened centuries before the church rewrote history to erase the feminine side of the faith deliberately ignoring jesus s real message and again condemning women to marginalization and worse providing all the necessary evidence to restore the goddess to both judaism and christianity picknett and prince expose the disastrous consequences of the suppression of the feminine from these two great religions and reveal how we have been collectively and instinctively craving the return of the sacred feminine for millennia p when god had a wife the fall and rise of the sacred when god had a wife the fall and rise of the sacred feminine in the judeo christian tradition p p when god had a wife the fall and rise of the sacred god commands the israelites that when he s driven the canaanites out of the promised land you shall tear down their altars and break their pillars and cut down their asherim for you shall worship no other god for the lord whose name is jealous is a jealous god 2 cutting down asherahs implies she was symbolized as objects when god had a wife the fall and rise of the sacred when god had a wife the fall and rise of the sacred feminine in the judeo christian tradition ebook written by lynn picknett clive prince read this book using google play books app on your pc android ios devices download for offline reading highlight bookmark or take notes while you read when god had a wife the fall and rise of the sacred feminine in the judeo christian tradition when god had a wife books inner traditions god commands the israelites that when he s driven the canaanites out of the promised land you shall tear down their altars and break their pillars and cut down their asherim for you shall worship no other god for the lord whose name is jealous is a jealous god 2 cutting down asherahs implies she was symbolized as objects when god had a wife lynn picknett clive prince 2019 12 10 when god had a wife is a great discussion on the what is the female nature of god as we see it in the bible is it worth the read yes does it answer all questions no and that is what makes the book you will be enriched by the discussion and be when god had a wife book by lynn picknett clive prince find out more about when god had a wife by lynn picknett clive prince at simon schuster read book reviews excerpts watch author videos more p p excerpt from when god had a wife by lynn picknett and the jealous god in the hebrew bible when discussing the israelites backsliding to the worship of other gods the word asherah occurs some 40 times sometimes in conjunction with baal clearly this refers to a deity at the center of some highly dubious cult at least as far as the writers were concerned when god had a wife by lynn when god had a wife the fall and rise of the sacred when god had a wife the fall and rise of the sacred feminine in the judeo christian tradition paperback december 10 2019 god s wife edited out of the bible almost seeker 2012 11 27 god s wife edited out of the bible almost god had a wife asherah whom the book of kings suggests was worshiped alongside yahweh in his temple in israel according to a scholar did god have a wife asherah worship in israel

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