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Which God?

I don't think Yahweh ever had a wife, and you know this considering you posted that link too. Asherah was the bed-wife of El, the father God; all before the gods were combined into one and Yahweh was given all characteristics of the previous gods and made omnipotent and all powerful.

I don't know how a Christian or Jew would rationalize this away. Wait and see I guess.

>>8866

Asherah worship is mentioned in the Old Testament and God was furious of it.

Asherah is a Canaanite deity, the Israelites that worshipped her were practicing Syncretism.

Syncretism is when you combine two faiths together.

Example: Santeria is a Syncretic religion composed of Catholicism and the African Yoruba religion.

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>>8869

>Asherah is a Canaanite deity, the Israelites that worshipped her were practicing Syncretism.

That's the "canonical" retcon, the Israelites used to worship her as well, but the entire OT is sort of a love story with Yahweh and how he's the one true God, but its why he's so constantly jealous and violent. He has to compete with all these other gods not just within the fertile crescent (in which the hebrews are such a small populace) but even within the Hebrews, some of who still worship "pagan" gods.

The hebrews practiced polytheism first and then eventually, slowly, developed the monotheistic view.