Asherah

Asherah
אֲשֵׁרָה
Lady Asherah (of the) Sea or Day[1]
Great Mother
Other namesAthirat
Major cult centerMiddle-East
Formerly Jerusalem
SymbolTree
Consort
Offspring
  • 70 sons (Ugaritic religion)
  • 77 or 88 sons (Hittite religion)

Asherah (/ˈæʃərə/;[2] Hebrew: אֲשֵׁרָה, romanizedʾĂšērā; Ugaritic: 𐎀𐎘𐎗𐎚, romanized: ʾAṯiratu; Akkadian: 𒀀𒅆𒋥, romanized: Aširat;[3] Qatabanian: 𐩱𐩻𐩧𐩩 ʾṯrt)[4] was a goddess in ancient Semitic religions. She also appears in Hittite writings as Ašerdu(s) or Ašertu(s) (Hittite: 𒀀𒊺𒅕𒌈, romanized: a-še-ir-tu4),[5] and as Athirat in Ugarit. Some scholars hold that Yahweh and Asherah were a consort pair in ancient Israel and Judah,[6][7][8][9] while others disagree.[10][11][12]

  1. ^ Binger 1997, p. 44.
  2. ^ "Asherah". The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia. Columbia University Press. 2022. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
  3. ^ Day, John. "Asherah in the Hebrew Bible and Northwest Semitic Literature." Journal of Biblical Literature, vol. 105, no. 3, 1986, pp. 385–408. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3260509. Accessed 5 Aug. 2021.
  4. ^ "DASI: Digital Archive for the Study of pre-islamic arabian Inscriptions: Word list occurrences". dasi.cnr.it. Archived from the original on 6 August 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  5. ^ 'Asertu, tablet concordance KUB XXXVI 35 - CTH 342 Archived 5 August 2021 at the Wayback Machine', Hittite Collection, Hatice Gonnet-Bağana; Koç University.
  6. ^ Binger 1997, p. 108.
  7. ^ "BBC Two - Bible's Buried Secrets, Did God Have a Wife?". BBC. 21 December 2011. Archived from the original on 15 January 2012. Retrieved 4 July 2012.
  8. ^ Wesler, Kit W. (2012). An Archaeology of Religion. University Press of America. p. 193. ISBN 978-0761858454. Archived from the original on 10 January 2022. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
  9. ^ Mills, Watson, ed. (31 December 1999). Mercer Dictionary of the Bible (Reprint ed.). Mercer University Press. p. 494. ISBN 978-0865543737. Archived from the original on 10 January 2022. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
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  11. ^ Sass 2014, pp. 47–66.
  12. ^ Cite error: The named reference Puech2015 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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