The Role Of Asherah In The Canaanite Pantheon
One of the most important members of the Canaanite Pantheon is Asherah whose name appears 40 times within nine books of the Old Testament along with her alternate name Astoreth that is mentioned in the Old Testament ten times. She is also known during the early Canaanite Pantheon as Elat, which is the female equivalent of El's name that means Goddess as well as the Mother Goddess to their 70 sons the "elohim." The name Elat when translated into a Semitic language means "terebinth," which is a word that describes a large tree that grows in the Mediterranean region. With her many titles such as the Mother Goddess, Divine Mother, Mother of the Gods, Goddess of Fertility, Creatress of All, Comforter and Protector and Mother of Nature. Other names
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And Ahab made an Asherah. And Ahab did more to provoke the Lord Elohim of Yisra’el than all the sovereigns of Yisra’el before him.
33. And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.
Here Hezekiah, who ruled the Kingdom of Judah from 716 to 687BC, makes a command to remove Asherah's pillars from the high places of worship, in 2nd Kings 18:4.
4. He took away the high places and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah, and broke in pieces the bronze serpent which Mosheh had made, for until those days the children of Yisra’el burned incense to it, and called it Nehushtan.
4. He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
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Consequently, a symbol or Tetragrammaton "YHWH" is used in the early Hebrew Bibles and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Writers of the Old Testaments and Holy Bibles used such names as "adonai, Lord or the Lord" because to say the name "Yahweh" could only be spoken by a high priest and never among the common people. For centuries only in the editions of the Sacred Name Bibles was the name "Yahweh" used and not until 1966AD did the name "Yahweh" began to be printed in the translations of the Jerusalem
And Ahab made an Asherah. And Ahab did more to provoke the Lord Elohim of Yisra’el than all the sovereigns of Yisra’el before him.
33. And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.
Here Hezekiah, who ruled the Kingdom of Judah from 716 to 687BC, makes a command to remove Asherah's pillars from the high places of worship, in 2nd Kings 18:4.
4. He took away the high places and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah, and broke in pieces the bronze serpent which Mosheh had made, for until those days the children of Yisra’el burned incense to it, and called it Nehushtan.
4. He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
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Consequently, a symbol or Tetragrammaton "YHWH" is used in the early Hebrew Bibles and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Writers of the Old Testaments and Holy Bibles used such names as "adonai, Lord or the Lord" because to say the name "Yahweh" could only be spoken by a high priest and never among the common people. For centuries only in the editions of the Sacred Name Bibles was the name "Yahweh" used and not until 1966AD did the name "Yahweh" began to be printed in the translations of the Jerusalem