Did God Have a Wife?: Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel
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- William G. Dever, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Lycoming College, and Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies, Arizona State University, presents the 2014 Tenenbaum Lecture (February 3, 2014). His illustrated lecture showcases recent archaeological evidence that reveals the differences in beliefs and practices of ordinary people in ancient Israel compared to the elitist, idealist portrait in the Bible, particularly the ongoing veneration of the Canaanite Goddess Asherah.
The Tenenbaum Family Lectureship in Judaic Studies salutes the family of the late Meyer W. Tenenbaum '31C-'32L of Savannah, Georgia.
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The lecture starts at 16:00
Thx bro
introducktory fluff
@@quevicular the intro had an intro 💀
They needed an introducer to introduce the 2nd introducer to introduce the 3rd introducer who introduced the guy that did the talk, never seen that before.
@@peanutnutter1 Morque again lets reason and understand **ONE GOD OF POWER/ETERNAL LIFE/ EVERLASTING LIFE** TRUE LOVE:** SPIRIRTUAL SALVATION OFTHE DEAD; DEAD; DEAD ALMIGHTY; ALMIGHTY GOD/MALE & FEMALE SEED OF CREATION**; AS OUR LORD; GOD CHRIST; GOD JESUS AS THREE AS ONE 25% OF ONE GOD OF POWER/LIFE TRUE LOVE; DOES NOT HAVE OR NEED A WIFE. MOST OF ALL ONE GOD OF POWER/LIFE TRUE LOVE DOES NOT NEED A WIFE BECAUSE ONE GOD OF POWER TREUE LOVE IS NOT; NOT; NOT A DEAD ALMIGHTY GOD SEED OF CREATION; THEREFORE ONE GOD OF POWER TRUE LOVE IS NEITHER MALE NOR FEMALE. MORQUE LETS REMEMBER THIS DEAD ALMIGHTY GOD SEED OF CREATION IS ENERMOUS FOR YE CAN SEE THE SIEZE OF CREATION SEED OF ANIMALS; HUMANS PLANTS ETC; BUT THEY ARE ALL FROM A DEAD SEED. SO ONE GOD OF POWER/LIFE TRUE LOVE SO LOVE; LOVE CREATION; ONE GOD OF POWER/ETERNAL TRUE LOVE; **SOWN* 25% SPIRITUAL POWER OF ONE GOD OF POWER/LIFE TRUE LOVE AS OUR LORD-5%; GOD CHRIST-5%; AND GOD JESUS AS 15% THAT BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE * 75% OF THE DEAD ALMIGHTY GOD SEED OF CREATION; WHERE THE NEXT 25% OF THE DEAD ALMIGHTY GOD SEED OF CREATION REMAINS DEAD AS THE DRAGON SEED. FOR THIS 25% DEAD ALMIGHTY GOD SEED OF CREATION WAS THE DRAGON THAT DESTROYED THE OTHER 75% WHY IT DIED. SO MR MORGUE LETS UNDERSTAND ;God had a wife, known as Ashera the Queen of heaven, ASHERA IS THE DEVIL THE OLD SERPENT SEED OF CREATION THAT IS THE ALMIGHTY MOTHER OF ADAM/EVE IN HEAVEN. WHERE ONE GOD OF POWER TRUE LOVE SOWN FROM GOD CHRIST 1% SPIRITUAL SALVATION UNTO ASHERA AND SHE WAS CONCEIVED SAME AS HOW THE BLESSED TEMPLE OF GOD JESUS WAS CONCEIVED WITHIN THE VIRGIN MARY. THEREFORE AFTER ONE GOD OF POWER TRUE LOVE SOWN UNTO ASHERA THIS SPIRITUAL POWER TO BRINGFORTH ADAM; SHE ASHERA WAS LATER DECEIVED BY THE CUNNING BEAST SEED MALE; AS ASHERA/MALE AS WAS SOWN IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN; WHERE SHE ASHERA BROUGHTFORTH **LUCIFIER/SATAN. THIS OF COURSE DESTROYED THE PLAN OF ONE GOD OF POWER TRUE LOVE AND ASHERA WAS DESTROYED AND THROWN DOWN TO EARTH. FOR THE PLAN OF ONE GOD OF POWER TRUE LOVE FOR CREATION; THAT SOWN LIFE; ETERNAL LIFE UPON 75% THE DEAD ALMIGHTY GOD SEED OF CREATION WAS TO DELETE SATAN; SATAN FROM CREATION AND ONLY SOWN A NEW CREATION OF 1% GOD CHRIST SEED MALE;FEMALE AS ADAM/EVE AND THE CUNNING BEAST SEED MALE AND FEMALE AS ONE AS ABEL MALE/FEMALE AS IN THE BEGINNING ON EARTH AND ADAM AND LILITH. BUT IT NEVER HAPPEN IN HEAVEN AND AS GOD JESUS PRAYED/SOWN ****LET IT BE SOWN/DONE ON EARTH AS IT WAS SOWN/DONE IN HEAVEN. IN GOD JESUS NAME WE PRAY ......AMEN. SO MORGUE PLEASE UNDERSTAND ONE GOD OF POWER TRUE LOVE IS NOT; NOT NEVER THE DEAD ALMIGHTY GOD SEED OF CREATION; FOR THIS SEED IS THE SIN; THAT WILL ALWAYS SOW OPPOSITE ALL THINGS IN RIALITY AND TRUTH OF ONE GOD OF POWER TRUE LOVE. FOR THIS IS THE ALMIGHTY GOD YE SPEAK ABOUT AS A DESTRUCTIVE AND JEALOUS GOD; NOT ONE GOD OF POWER TRUE LOVE THAT HAS YE; YE MR MORGUE ALIVE AND EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING ALIVE THROUGH THE POWER OF ETERNAL LIFE THAT NEVER DIE. ONLY THE DEAD ALMIGHTY GOD SEED OF CREATION DIE; IS DEAD AND WILL ALWAYS DIE. ONE GOD OF POWR/LIFE NEVER NEVER DIE......
The 'short introduction' lasts 16 minutes.
Thank you so much!
Jeesh thats some intro!! thanks ;)
Stephanie Wilson Thanks for the heads up!
Thanks. Saved a lot of time.
Thank you! 16 minutes of my life saved. 😀
Dever speaks at 16:06.
Yes, you apparently missed my comment on that above.
+Wonderboywonderings and apparently you forgot to include a timely link. Good gravy!
Jerad Clark thanks for that
Rochelle Na’amah Lee no problem.
Jerad Clark Thanks for the heads up!
It's interesting that the dove is seen as a symbol for Asherah, and the holy spirit of God is seen as a dove as well. Perhaps they didn't really stop worshiping Asherah, they just changed her into gods holy spirit and started representing her, with her symbol (the dove).
This would make the Christian view of the Father, the son, and the holy spirit (ghost) make more sense, because it would become the father, the son, and the wife (mother, seen as a dove). And there is the divine family unit.
Very interesting
where does the Virgin Mary fit in this? because supposedly the Father spiritually impregnates her.
Thats interesting for me, a muslim as well, there is parts in quran that condemn concept of trinity, most dont specify the 3 figures, but 1 particular part describe those 3 as God, Jesus, and His Mother. Majority of people thinking "My Mother" means Mary, thats why some people think quran only condemn maryamite sect. But if we see holy ghost as Asherah. well, isnt that interesting?
@@janokjaran seems there is a connection
I wonder how Wisdom, Sophia, from Proverbs can play a part in this.
I'm so glad this video exists.
Insightful video. Great visual presentation. Fascinating.
I'd love to see this guy get together with Max Dashu and discuss their findings- I'd love to be a fly on the wall to that conversation!
A genius, simply brilliant! Thank you so much for this! I must share this on my edublogs - and on different social media:-)
Highly entertaining and informative. I'm a big fan of his books.
Yeah, I haven't finished it yet, (I'm roughly around 40:04) but it's proving exactly what the Old Testament says; that Israel & Judah were befouled with the sludge of pagan idolatry for the vast majority of their history! See my comments for more.
@@claritasyoutubechannel3312 Agreed. His whole presentation adds more credibility to the Biblical story. While he keeps saying the finds he is reporting go against what you should expect, if you actually read the Bible these finds are EXACTLY what you should expect. It's interesting that at one point he actually acknowledged this, but said you would need to "read between the lines." I say you just need to read the actual lines of the Bublical text to see this would be the case.
@@modernmaniac1780 What exactly in the Bible did this presentation bring credibility to the Bible? All of this art isn't mentioned in the Bible.
Awesome lecture.Thx!
You want to start at 17:05
Wm. Dever was my Anthropology professor at University of Arizona in 1975. Entertaining in his lectures. He is a fallen away Evangelical pastor and Reformed Jew and now is a “secular humanist.”
@@josemoody1743 turned away from faith and scripture study
@@alfrede.neuman8898 he knows more than most of your rabbis and pastors
@@Texasmade74 Dr. Michael Heiser disagreed, and the guy could hold a conversation in Ancient Hebrew.
@thadtheman3751 Most of Michael Heiser arguments were from apologetics, and despite him being a scholar, he was an evangelical whose theories have pretty much been disproven
@thadtheman3751 for example he refused to accept the polytheistic origins of Israelite religion even when it's self-evident, and he tried to mske the divine council out to be angels when the Hebrew text says Gods plural
As a Wiccan, who's always being told "You're religion is BS!" this video makes me happy. lol
People should never say a religion is BS. It is too offensive. They should say, all religions are BS so nobody feels isolated.
People are supposed to be free to worship whatever they want. I can decide a rock on the ground is my god. People should not be murdered for it either!
@@Amanda-cd6dm We've come a long way since the 1980s....when the FBI was called on my coven. But there's definitely a threat of going backwards...as we've seen with the overturning of Roe vs Wade since the Supreme Court became a vehicle for the GOP to take rights away from us.
It’s like saying my spaghetti monster is more valid than yours, lol.
You’re probably closer to any “truth” than all those mainstream religions put together. 😂
I strongly believe that there's feminine or female, involvement in the process of creation. I have two points to buttress my views. 1. All other animals were created male and female. 2. Just as the speaker said, 'let us', this indicates plural efforts in the process of creation.
"let us" actually mean God talking to the Holy spirit that is with himself (since the trinity was always there before creation) God was never alone,He had the Holy spirit and the Son.
@@hephzibahpearl2501 Trinity could be Anu, Enlil and Enki? Asherah is Inanna/Ishtar?
Well if the Divine Council was in a sense then yeah you’d be right, since technically there’s female angels,.
the Hathor capital picture at 36.23 shows a Asherah pole carved on the right side of the door on the temple headdress - its faded but u can clearly make it out and its the best image of an Asherah pole I've ever seen - indeed I'd say this is how they in fact looked as imagery on Egyptian carving is very life like when it comes to the Gods .
Magnificent. I think I read his book, but I can't recall anymore.
Thank you very much and all the best!
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints also believes that God has a wife. If we are His children, it would make sense that God would have a wife, and that they as a union are One.
duh
Were they limited to the missionary position?
18:87 Aho Professor. We beleaguered women applaud you.
Great Work.
The main course of his talk begins around 20min.
Thanks from Denmark
Wow. 16 minutes of self-congratulations?! The official slideshow doesn't begin until 20:30. Asherah's packing quite the dairy!
The theology of the old testament literally admits thst many Israelites had multiple gods and some worshipped asherah. This isn't it odds with Judaism/Christianity since a big theme of the old testament was condemning the Israelites who had pagan gods and persuading them to worship a monotheistic god.
Indeed the claimis like the claim that the modern US religion believe you would become transendent if you commited suicde while a comet ( Hale-Bopp ) is approaching.
really amazing
Did this man say he was 80?????? He looks great.
He’s now 89.
Wow love this
16:06 the featured speaker starts his lecture
Makes me think about the imagery of the burning bush which is not consumed by the fire, from which the divine voice says "ehiyeh asher ehiyeh" 'I will be what I will be'. Can't ignore 'asher' which means which/what/that. Could it be that, in grappling with ideas of a material-spiritual duality, Asherah was demoted to the material/mundane/profane and Yihoah promoted to the spiritual/holy/pure? And thus asherah is that physical being which is caused to be? Idk, sorry for being kinda rambly
God Bless Everyone
tears of joy makes a good pond in heaven for the clear waters of love overflowing will fill a beautiful reservoir made by good people hands
1. O my Father, thou that dwellest
In the high and glorious place,
When shall I regain thy presence
And again behold thy face?
In thy holy habitation,
Did my spirit once reside?
In my first primeval childhood
Was I nurtured near thy side?
2. For a wise and glorious purpose
Thou hast placed me here on earth
And withheld the recollection
Of my former friends and birth;
Yet ofttimes a secret something
Whispered, "You're a stranger here,"
And I felt that I had wandered
From a more exalted sphere.
3. I had learned to call thee Father,
Thru thy Spirit from on high,
But, until the key of knowledge
Was restored, I knew not why.
In the heav'ns are parents single?
No, the thought makes reason stare!
Truth is reason; truth eternal
Tells me I've a mother there.
4. When I leave this frail existence,
When I lay this mortal by,
Father, Mother, may I meet you
In your royal courts on high?
Then, at length, when I've completed
All you sent me forth to do,
With your mutual approbation
Let me come and dwell with you.
Eliza R. Snow
Their hair is not electrified it’s depicting DREADLOCKS ; and the female on the chair also dreadlocks or braids you can see it clearly 🤩
Couldn’t the person playing the Lyre harp, be an artist’s rendition of David?
He was often painted as a small dainty child
Thank you very much. This information is factual evidence for what I have always known! Just an observation - the winged symbol at Sultis associated with Lady Asherah is described by Thoth as "God is a circle, with center everywhere and circumference, nowhere". The central disc is likened to the sun, our primary source of electromagnetic energy, however this is a partial misnomer. The disc is always red in color, which is the color of the universal life force of the universe. The disc or orb if you like is often encircled by a serpent or two serpents, hence the name "winged serpent" for the symbol. The serpents represent the nature of life, which is described by the dual currents of life and death, or the processes of destruction followed by creation, or indeed the opposite poles of negative and positive current, or the pillars of Boaz and Jakin on the Tree of Life, while the wings represent the radiation of the central life force throughout of the infinite reaches of space. The people of olden times believed they were all individual centers of the universe, which as far as I am aware, has no boundaries, or is ever expanding according to scientists.
@@enkienki2360 The human mind can't really comprehend God/dess, the Creator and Genatrix of the Universe. However the ancients, understanding this fact, envisaged Deity as within and without of all of us and all beings and not somehow separate. As we are a part of nature and the Egyptian word for God was Neter, where the word nature comes from, Thoth describes God as a circle, with no beginning and never ending. According to this idea, whereby we are really miniature reflections of God on earth, we are all centers of the universe, circles with centers everywhere and circumference nowhere.
He worships his bride in a normal way anyone worships there wife but she is not to be worshipped by angels of humanity her purpose is for her and God to make each other happy she has no purpose when it comes to the rest of existence. She might be a mediator between woman and Jesus Christ just like Jesus is the mediator of man him and the father but what she really wants is just to be his wife she doesn't honestly want any responsibility for the angels or the people. She just want to be only responsible for her two children and her two cats lol.
@@gracecoleman5299 I can't really comment on God's household affairs but what makes sense to me is that we were created in God's image - both male and female - which seems to be more akin to the Yin and Yang or female and male as one, than any other possible interpretation. There is a precedent - in every single ancient culture, the God was balanced by the Goddess. Most often Deity was represented as Son, Father and Sage and this Triume was always matched by Maiden, Mother and Crone... so God was always seen as Androgynous.
Wm. Dever is Professor Emeritus at University of Arizona Tucson not of Arizona State University at Tempe
44:00 wouldnt a tree symbolize more than just ashura? but all wood carved idols or images
What about the connection between the Jewish church and Hathor which is the sycamore tree. The sycamore tree and the bull. I was watching another lecture where they were saying that the bull, particularly the half orb represented the male deity which was incorrect which I’ve noticed a lot of scholars, make a lot of incorrect assumptions because they’re trying to maintain a particularpoint of view of the situation
I wonder, could the winged lion that holds up the throne, be a cherub? It has a likeness to the babylonian/assyrian kerubu. It would be nice to get an answere.
Yes kerub it's the Hebrew word for the mesopotamian kerubu. I invite you to follow Thomas Römer' s class on College de France' s website or to read his books, he talk about that. Yahweh is supposed to sit on a kerub' s throne.
To be made in one's image,...being a soul capable of LOVE, and Compassion am I not the image of my Maker, taking, and giving Love?
ending statements brought a few tears. very interesting view of the ancient people of Israel
How do we know that the Taanach Stand is of Israelite Art? If Israelites couldn't make any representation of anything, how can we compare the Stand to other non-existent art of such culture?
I'm liking this lecture, another point of view through a scholar not a random CZcamsr.
The point is that they DID make figurative art. These aren't the only examples.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has taught the idea that God has a wife who is equal in power to him since the 1840s.
Did God Have a Wife? Absolutely. Her name is Sophia Loren.
An hour wasted, at the end nothing new or different
The connection of the female goddess Asherah to lion figures in the many clay artworks is noted ... but all the lion figures in the shown artworks were male lions !!! ???
yes
And Ishtar's main animal is also a lion.
Actually, God bless. Gerard Miller here. According to the bible, when God created man and woman, he created them Male and female, in his own image created us, Male and female. If we are created in God's image, Male and female, that means they are Male and female. The angels are actually physical beings.
If you have any understanding of truth. Abraham walked side by side with God.
God sat down and eat food with Abraham and his wife Sarah. And Sarah was told that she would have a son at her old age. And Abraham and God walked and talked about the destruction of Sodom and Gomora.
I'm taking a break today because today is sort of a special day for me, but I'd like to ask one question: Where in the Old Testament exact does it claim that Israel and Judah were Monotheistic Utopias? Because I don't see that anywhere in the text.
So a while back, I was doing research on dryads, but what I’ve ran across was something a lot bigger. It had to do with a lot what happened to the body after we die but then when it came to Greece and it came to northern Africa from Egypt through the sedan through Mali And other parts I’ve ran across repeated instances of trees and their affiliations with female gods. Although there are other trees that have affiliations with male gods, take Peru and his Egyptian counterparts for example, but when it pertains to North Africa, there was the olive tree, and the sycamore tree, and the palm which all three of these trees have different patrons, and I think it was years ago before I even heard this work that I’ve already made the association with Isis and the tree and I say I said I know the Olive tree is more connected to Rara. However, when it comes to Isis is the olive tree because of the ties into Christianity and Judaism and the deep ties within the Mary. Church in Ope in America and how without them saying much it is female dominated, and it is very much about a nature worship, but more of this helps me deep in my studies more.
I have a lot of respect for the Laneys, Tim Laney is one of the best men I have ever known
That incense sensor looks like a Ethiopian vessel, but I guess that’s why that it is sided next to a form of Amharic
I distinctly remember Jesus Christ stating that divorce was not so from the beginning.... So how did God divorce his wife again?
Yes, GOD the FATHER have a WIFE, & SHE'S GODDESS, our beloved HOLY Eternal MOTHER.
What if His Wife is sent last?
What do you mean?
Dever Fever starts at 16:00
Good gravy! It took 3 people and 16 mins to get to Dever! What a waste of 15 precious mins.
Wonderboywonderings Thanks for saving me 15 minutes, I appreciate your sacrifice.
Thankyou, you just saved me 15 minutes
“To whom will you people liken me or make me equal, or compare
Me that we may resemble each other,?
Isaiah 46 : 5.
Verse 8-9.
Isaiah 44 : 13.
As for the wood carver, he has stretched out the measuring line.
He traces it out with red chalk; he works it up
With a wood. Scraper :
And with a compass he keeps tracing it out, and gradually he makes it like the
Representation of a man, like the beauty of mankind, to sit in his house.”
Verse 18.
They have not come to know, nor do they understand, because their eyes have been
Be smeared so as not to see.”
Their heart so as to have no insight.”
Asherah becomes the tree of life snd she married EL
Actually if you do your Bible History and your research you will learn that Asherah goes back further than the Canaanites Asherah goes back further than Noah and Noah's where the Canaanites come from. Believe me I am gonna write the book and cite the sources. Asherah goes all the way back to In The Beginning
Correct me if I'm wrong isn't the guardian isn't that symbolized by a lion so since she's standing on the line representing God the lion of Judah you would think that was a statue of his wife I wouldn't let any other female stand on me
one hour and eight minutes let's see how far I can ma....
Anathoth - place of the ' images' of Anat
At 50:52 Looks very modern, more like C.E. 21st century, not B.C.
The "dog always produce dogs" guy would say you are wrong and instead should buy his videos
Yes. "The LORD possessed me (Wisdom) in the beginning of his way, before his works of old." Proverbs 8:22
Proverbs 8:22 is talking about Jesus being created by God. Take a look at the following verse 23 "From time indefinite I (Jesus) was installed, from the start, from times earlier than the earth."
To be installed or created "earlier than the earth" would suggest that God was creating heavenly creatures such as angels, cherubs & seraphs. These heavenly creatures truly did come into existence before (or earlier than the earth) the earth was created & long before Adam was created.
From this point of view, Proverbs 8:22 is not referring to you or me or for that matter any other human but Jesus as a heavenly angelic son.
@@johngemmell6515 i disagree. Christ was not a SHE. That's a twisted interpretation.
@@dannymathis7275 I'm not too sure how you came about the fact I was saying Christ was a she?
@@johngemmell6515 It's the other way around. In Proverbs Wisdom is clearly defined as a female entity. The insertion of Jesus in Proverbs' "context" of Wisdom is a false church dogma. Read proverbs again for what it says. She was with Him before the creation of earth.
@@dannymathis7275 Lets consider what wisdom is. Wisdom is the ability to put knowledge to proper use. As an example, if a parent teaching their child the safe & proper way to cross the road when the child follows through on what it has been taught, it has demonstrated putting knowledge from their parent to 'proper use.' If that child has failed to obey their parent that child has lacked the ability to demonstrate wisdom.
What we need to be careful of is confusing wisdom with discernment & understand even though these 3 qualities are closely related. Wisdom is a quality that every person can obtain. Solomon is predominantly known solely as a man of abundant wisdom, he demonstrated that God-given quality when he had to decide who the real mother was over a custody battle between 2 women of the child.
Wisdom is also one of Jehovah Gods' 4 cardinal attributes. They are Love, justice, wisdom & power. When God created Adam in his image man inherited those 4 cardinal attributes thus it can truly be said man is in the likeness of his Creator.
Starts at 16:08.
Seems to me that Yahweh is Asherah. Why is Yahweh underlined on my screen like it is not a word or is misspelled but Asherah is not?
On 36:12 Sulcis, that looks just like Mother God Queen ISIS, Osirius wife. On top of her you can see the circle Sun with wings, that's Egyptian hyroglyphs. The thing she's holding with both hands, I've also seen in Egyptian pictures. Jehovah is the Sun God and Ashera is Sun Godess. Isis and Ra El had children, they still call them the Children of Israel. Jehovah gave them the Promised Land Canna, the Sun Worshippers and where Ashera was known as Mother Queen. The place where Noah's ark landed is mountain Ararat in Armenia. Mountain Ararat means mountain of the Sun. Ara means Sun. Armenians language is special it's a Solar origin language. Prefixes begins with Ara or Ary meaning creation or Solar. Armenians were worshipping the Sun in the Begining. Va-El is Hayek Armenian patriarch. Nimrod another Sun God, Horus Son of the Sun. Mayans worshipping Sun. Japan used to worship the Sun also. In Sun worshipping suicide is just an expedition quickly to meet God face to face. Kamikazees were anxious to see God. Mayan Kings would voluntarily play sports where if you lost, you had to sacrafices your life. It was meeting God faster. Sun worshipping was I believe first worshipping of deity. 🌞🌝☀️💫✡️ Seeds of Isis and Ra. Israel.
Very interesting,alot to get into
Kukulkan Sol YEP!!
Note that pagan icons of Isis nursing Horus were copied to create Coptic Christian icons of Mary nursing Jesus. Isis-Horus connection probably resonated with Coptic (Egyptian) Christians who grew up surrounded by pagan imagery of religion of Isis. Bollinger Press (Princeton) published a book about this in the 1980s or 1990s.
Hey where did you get the bit of Isis and El being children of Ashera and Jehova? I'd like to learn more about that.
I keep dreaming of her and painting her... My Nanna
19:45 If so many people weren't doing all that "pagan" stuff, half of the Old Testament wouldn't have needed to be written... :D
I am a woman please stop use me. Yeah u worshipped trees and used sacrifice and its u using it for your own power. So evil.
@@twiggycat1000 are you sure that you replied to the right comment (because yours has no relation to mine)?
RonJohn63 i know. think of fun we would have missed.
agree
exactly!!!
I happen to think that el and yhwh are the same deity only adapted to jew bible
+Victoria Smith
I thought so too at first..until I saw the Ugaritic Texts. In one verse Yahweh is mentioned as just another of the 70 sons of God (El).
El devided up the nations of Earth, giving each nation its Patron God. Yahweh was given Israel. But Yahweh was inserted into the OT, replacing El. The authors screwed up when they gave Yahweh El's consort, Asherah. "Yahweh and his Asherah" became a houshold word. That caption is even found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, and on many artifacts found in different dig sites.
El had been the original creator god of the Jews, this is why his name was made into Israel. Isra-"El."
Victoria Smith I believe Ra el, Sun God is Jehovah. He's chasing Ashera Sun Godess.🌞 God spoke to Moses through fire bush.
Victoria Smith Me too.
Not the same god imo, but from the same pantheon.
@@Cootabux El is just another name for Yahweh within the viewpoint of the ancient authors. In many parts of scripture they have the same characteristics, and it’s never said that El gave Israel to Yahweh. The authors never even said that God had a wife tho? The worship of Asherah was condemned by prophet Jermaniah and was a giant point of controversy for Yahwists. I’d suggest looking at a channel called Inspiring philosophy for a much better break down then mine if you even read this 🤣
Dearest Dr. William Dever, you are truly a Blessing 🙏 to the whole world of the Divine Feminine, that has been ignored, removed, or made out to be into black magic/ witchcraft, and just plain second rate citizens on this planet. MAY Goddess Bless you in what you have brought to the world. I am ordering your book!! I am an Ordained Minister, yet I don't like religion ..but love the Creators, Mom and Dad and their son and daughter. The Gnostics knew there was also a daughter. I am a practicing Mystic/Healer/Master Reiki Practitioner, as well as a Teacher of the mystical part of religion that has been left out. I am studying ferociously lately on this very subject. At 66 years old I am getting so, so much information all because I am OPEN to receive it. When we ASK, we are GIVEN.
Bless CZcams because you popped up as a recommendation and when we listen SHE and HE speak to us. You probably won't believe this, but about a few months ago. I was awakened from a sound sleep to Father God sternly saying to me, "tell people to stop saying their prayers to "HE", it's not just me here but my WIFE who needs to be acknowledged!." Well, obviously you got the same message and have done all this research and hard work to prove it. How wonderful for your wife is to have a truly "enlightened" man by her side and from what I hear she is your "Twin Flame". Just as Asherah is the Twin Flame to Yahweh! The YIN and the YANG!
I can't tell you how much you have inspired and confirmed all I have known and been shown. I always say my prayers to Father and Mother God.....so he wasn't telling me to do this, he was telling me to spread the word to others that are so stuck in their "patriarchy" PLEASE Keep shining your beautiful Wisdom (Sophia) Female....... and Knowledge (Logos) Male waking people up to the truth. Because of what you have taught us, I have more love for the TREES, which I already adored. ♥ I hope someone gets this message to you. You are my HERO!! 👍
Which God had a wife? Yahweh and his Asherah or Pan and his Christy
Mankind has spent all of humanity, trying to reduce GOD to meet man's limited reasoning and hubris. Whereas, GOD is still reaching down to mankind to Raise mankind up. Everything God has done is to Elevate us beyond our own ability to comprehend and beyond our own competency to exist. * I would never want to worship a god who needs to mimic or imitate his creation - us. God never had or needed a wife. Accept Jesus Christ and His work on the Cross. Receive eternity life, freely given, freely received. Only believe.
55:12
I guess this is why murder didn’t make it until #6
Is it possible that this is ancestral worship, and that this is eve and adam?
some say the eve story was created to mock asherah since snakes and fruit trees are sacred to her. the earlier Semitic creation stories are a little different they record that there were more people in the garden besides adam & eve
Inanna?
Ahhh, there is a myth about Persephone eating a promogranite seed in the underworld, after that she became a liminual and underworld diety and resided in spring summer on earth and fall and winter in Hades.
56:19 it could be a reference to keeping cannabis on you during a travel
Asherah/Sarah. Rah
If someone converted their belief won’t be same, Canaanite left thier worship they believe on God of Yahweh. If someone was Muslim then converted to Hinduism is person still called to be Muslim or Hindu?? 🤷♀️🤔
It’s hilarious how people say look God had a wife when it’s recorded in the bible that people worshipped Asherah as they were constantly guilty of committing idolatry. You have evidence of Idolatry. Makes perfect sense since God had to tell them to stop doing it so much.
I think I heard that Asherah wasn’t an evil deity until josiah. Before that asherah was worshipped along side with God. Not confident about that but that’s what I heard. I’m still gathering info on this
@@eugene3484 Read Kings and Chronicles and you will understand. There were several kings guilty of idolatry including Josiah’s father and grandfather who made idols of Baal. The bible is constantly having the Jewish people falling away from God and then they are brought back by prophets. They continuously need to be brought back from evil practices, even while Moses is on the mountain the people fall away and his brother Aaron shamefully makes a golden calf idol, they can’t stop themselves. It’s written in Deuteronomy “You shall not plant for yourself an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of the Lord your God, which you shall make for yourself.” It’s a direct commandment for a reason. As to what I was saying it would be very affirming to the bible to find Asherah worship in Israel.
@@ChopinIsMyBestFriend my question is why is everyone in Israel including all the leaders keep going back to Asherah. There’s just something about that Canaanite goddess that they knew about that we don’t today. That’s what I wanna figure out. However there’s plenty of old text where it says “Yahweh and His Asherah”
@@ChopinIsMyBestFriend considering that all life started in Canaan. We don’t have much info about Canaan unless you check Canaan sources itself and try to understand where and how it fits with the Bible. Because the Bible doesn’t tell us much
@@eugene3484 There’s much they would’ve known that we don’t know. The bible is speaking to the jews not the canaanites. If God is real and really spoke, he had specific instructions to quit worshipping them. They always fall back into idolatry from mixing with neighboring nations such as the moabites. I have theories that many of the other “gods” are actually demons. But that is my opinion. They sure do seem to love idols. The bible is written for a reason and it’s not to tell about canaanite culture. You do not know where life started. If you take the bible literally, it would be in Eden which is located in the fertile crescent between tigris and euphrates.
Yahweh was most likely a warrior or a weather deity, worshipped by Canaanites in the wilderness, and was introduced via trade routes. Just like Thor in norse mythology. It's all mythology
Because our Creator is a He as the scripture says.
@Anders Erichsen, when has a man/male ever created life, males dont create life they take life.
@@mikeaskme3530 you're ignorant and dumb,God isn't a human.
You guys just don't understand how time works but yes God has a wife named asherah
1) What does time have to do with this?
2) No God does not have a wife name Asherah, that was an innovation made by pagan Israelites; see my comments for more. (At the times of making this reply, I have completed part 1, but not part 2.)
"the bible is a minority report" (18:50)
Even if early Israelites did worship Asheera, this does not mean that Abraham also worshiped her.
Abraham was friend to Ashera and her peers. 😀 Did you know his wife Sarah gave birth at the age of 90? How do you think that happened?🤐
Part 2:
- 22:22 It's remarkable the amount of disconnect and contradiction present here; he affirms that all this was described in the Bible, but then tries to insist that it somehow contradicts what the Bible is saying, that there was no idolatry and paganism, when the Bible clearly says that there was!
- 22:26 I should repeat what I've said in part 1, that the Documentary Hypothesis is well on it's way out the door, and European scholars no longer use it.
- 22:40 Funny how these cults are condemned in Scripture, it's almost as if this archeology is actually proving rather than disproving what the Bible says.
- 22:45 Only kings could stamp-out these cults because it was only when the kings believed the True Faith that they got rid of these cults, otherwise the kings were pagan just like everyone else as the Bible states and this archeology shows, and were actually persecuting this so-called "elite."
- 22:50 No, I don't see no disconnect at all, this is all confirming exactly what the Bible says; frankly what kind of Bible are you reading??
- 24:25 Oh wow! This might be the dumbest thing said in this entire video! The clinging to the horns of an altar was a ritual and symbolic practice, not so that the authorities couldn't pick you up and carry you way. Good grief!
- 25:21 Like I said in part 1 Michas' Idol was adored (Adoration being that Catholic term for latria) at Dan, as the Bible claims.
- 25:57 Yes we should because the Bible says that such things took place.
- 26:11 Yeah, and this archeological evidence shows why.
- 26:21 Yes it is the reality, the Northern Kingdom practiced idolatry and paganism, and this archeological evidence proves it.
- 27:30 This is a Pharisiaco-Protestant misunderstanding of the prohibition against graven images, images and depictions were allowed as long as they weren't idolatrous. Also I'm not sure if he'll get to this, but notice that part of the image that's supposed to present YHWH contains no image at all.
I need to go do my daily meditations now so I'll just leave it here. All I'm seeing is confirmation of what the Old Testament account says, and claims that this somehow contradicts the Old Testament account when just the opposite is true.
How can they spend a full 15 minutes stroking each others' egos? !!!!! You need to edit that stuff out.
40:50 we now know that the smaller was burning animal fat and cannabis.
did god have a wife? I thought he was supposed to be eternal
That doesn't mean hes not eternal
Beliefs evolve over time. Yahweh and Asherah were once part of a complete Canaanite pantheon.
@L M what about the spiritual in Judaism in the old and the new testament that is now the holy trinity ie God created and sends the spirit in the name of Jesus Christ .
@L M all civilisations had a religious belief system the bonded the society and humans have been murdering one another since their recorded history, Marxism did away with religion and millions have been slaughtered by marxists, jesus came to do away with religious hierarchies and spoke of absolute forgiveness, but classical rome greated a religion in his name and also used violence against non believers jesus sacrificed his life for our sins but humanity doesn't care that is why we have wars and now atomic bombs because of hate.
@L M I know jesus didn't want to create a religion he wanted the Jews to love one another and live good lives he criticised religious hierarchy never preached in a building and religion represents the interests of the ruling elite ie the churches of Rome England Russia Greece and so on, humans like to form jointly held belief systems, take Nazi Germany hitler was more or less messianic humans feel secure belonging to a belief that is going to serve their interests jesus is a outsider he saw the pitfalls in religions hierarchies that's why the Jewish priests wanted him got rid of.
Where was Jesus Christ at in Eden?
In paradise? Although the paradise part I beg to differ....
The discovery of ancient inscriptions at Kuntillet ‘Ajrud shows Yahweh with his wife both cows (Bulls). People who worship YHVH the Bull must Repent before they will face the consequences of their evil deeds.
I don't see anything here that was not in the Bible. The Hebrews were constantly copying the Canaanite polytheism. Asherah poles were everywhere and Baal was in every town. They broke their contract and got scattered as a result.
Not on their own, but by order of King Josiah. That order is NOT in the Bible. It's passed of as the work of Moses, to make it seem 'divine.'
@@estebansteverincon7117 what about all the prophets' admonishments? like I said, they were warned
They WERE Canaanites. Judaism descends from the Canaanite religion. Judaism was polytheistic before it was henotheistic before it was monotheistic.
@@bozo5632 that is only one theory... the problem with prehistory is everything is a guess.
@@braggsean1026 Well then it's a pretty good guess, like guessing that wood comes from trees. Everything has origins.
Okay, with the help of the Lord's Grace and the intercession of the Gebirah Ha-Shamayim, I'm ready to take a look at this and critique this video point-by-point and see how much of it is reasonable, and how much is tainted by an Anti-Biblical bias. let's take a look:
- 17:10 I look forward to seeing you prove that point.
- 17:16 I look forward to seeing you prove that too, especially consider how much the Human Spouse of His Holy Spirit, the Immaculately Conceived New Even, owns by being Spiritually married to Him.
- 17:19 He has His own Kingdom, the Saints who were Faithful to Him, and the greatest civilization in all of history, Christian Civilization; which may be lying dormant beneath our feet now, but will rise again, just as God the Son did. Also as I alluded to earlier, He has Mary, the Immaculately Conceived New Eve, the Greatest Creation in all of reality, that alone I imagine would satisfy Him even if He had nothing else, I know it would me. I know he's sort of joking when he says all this, but it's still worth saying all this in response.
- 17:24 Folk Religion is sort of a grey area, I'm not sure how one hopes to get an objective finding out of something like that; a lot of Hispanics (Or as I like to call my people La Raza de Santiago) venerate Santa Muerte, but that doesn't mean that Santa Muerte is a real Saint, or someone that the Catholic Faith holds up as real and worthy of veneration.
- 17:31 It's a false dichotomy because as I've just said, Folk Religion is a grey area, Folk Religion is neither all-false or all-true, some it is false, like Santa Muerte as I've mentioned above, but a lot of other things are in perfect accord with the Judeo-Christian or Biblical Faith. Heck, I myself am a big fan of Folk Religion and want to take up some practices of my ancestors' Folk Religion when I - Please God! - move back onto my family's farm down in Chile.
- 17:39 "Reconstructing" What does that mean? A lot of this desire to "reconstruct" Biblical practices actually comes from Protestantism, indeed, the vast majority of accusations that Christian beliefs and practices stem from paganism, ultimately have their origin in Protestant propaganda.
- 18:18 "Elites" I don't like the subtle implications behind that term.
- 18:20 "Attached to the court and temple in Jerusalem.." Lol! Jeremiah was clearly a member of that group, look at how well he got along with them!
- 18:24 Well that's true in the sense that I myself don't at all represent a majority of Catholics, I actually believe what the Faith always has, and always will teach. But just because one is not of the majority opinion on something doesn't mean that said person is false on said opinion; throughout history, the majority of people thought that the earth was flat.
- 18:28 🙄I'm not even going to dignify that with a response.
- 18:29 After thinking about it for a bit, I've decided I will say this, it's awfully sexist of you to think that if the writing of Sacred Scripture were placed in the hands of women, they would pervert the objective Truths of Divine Revelation.
- 18:36 Yeah, when I think of an idealistic view of Israelite Religion, I think of the dumpster fire that was the Divided Monarchy of Israel and Judah!
-18:41 Oh goody, our first contradiction, the Bible was written by "elites attached to the court and Temple," but they never were "in charge!" They were elites only they weren't!
- 18:50 And that's pretty much what this all is, a conspiracy theory, a bunch of sneaky people came in and re-wrote history.
- 18:59 Does it, or are we taking the archeological evidence we've found and viewing and interpreting it through our own assumptions that were just stated in this video?
- 19:11 It should be worth pointing out that the Documentary Hypothesis is well on it's way out, scholars in Europe no longer use it.
- 19:13 Hence why Sola Scriptura is false.
- 19:25 I should also add that this historian himself is already reading more into the Bible than there is there, just like a Protestant practicing Sola Scriptura!
- 19:27 Some of which contradict and almost certainly will continue to contradict modern secularist beliefs and assumptions about Ancient Israel and the Bible that we have now. I know the arguments that "well in the future we'll find and discover something that'll disprove your belief" isn't the strongest argument, I myself have to deal with these arguments in both my religious and socio-cultural beliefs and commitments, but it's still worth pointing-out I think.
- 19:36 We already know from the Bible what most people were doing, practicing idolatry.
- 19:46 Like I said before, just because the majority of Ancient Israelites practiced paganism, doesn't mean that paganism is the "true religion of Ancient Israel," just as the fact that the majority of Catholics reject the Real Presence, practice contraception, blasphemy, religious indifferentism ect. doesn't mean that these are the real beliefs and practices of the Catholic Faith.
- 19:54 I will, I think the preferable one is the one that'll lead you to Eternity with the Triune God of Israel, and not away from Him and to Eternity with the demonic false gods the Israelites were worshipping.
- 19:55 "Which is legitimate," yeah, everything you've said thus far heavily implies that you think the legitimate one is one the where "God [sic] had a wife." Heck, you just quoted your colleague referring to that as the "true religion of Ancient Israel!"
- 21:02 I should point-out that the Bible says that Michas' idol was adored (to use the Catholic term for latria) at Dan.
- 21:55 They're not "always condemned," they were considered acceptable at one point and then no longer acceptable after that, this frankly is reading contradictions into Scripture where there aren't any.
- 22:00 Dan was at the border and thus heavily influenced by the surrounding pagan nations, and considering that the Northern Kingdom was the most idolatrous and pagan, it's actually no surprise that it became the "cultural capital." I highly suspect that the most pagan and idolatrous findings we'll see on this journey come from the north.
- 22:11 Really? The High Places? The Bible clearly states that the High Places were present in Israel all the way to the Babylonian Exile, and on top of that there was brief period where the High Places were tolerated, namely after the destruction of the Tabernacle and before the building of the Temple, the prophet Samuel participated in sacrifices at a High Place. Also in the latter times of the Kingdom of Judah, only the God of Israel was adored at the High Places, no other pagan gods.
I got to go have lunch now, I'll do part to later, so far it seems like all this presentation is doing proving what the Bible says while thinking that this is doing the opposite, it's going to be interesting to see what is said about Asherah.
How God going to have hisself. Mary was a demon. God is a spirit not flesh and blood. God don't want flesh and blood. Then he will be defiling his self. God is pure spirit. Jeremiah chapters 1-3
Call out of Egypt… wrote in dust not stone….. medical care done by priest or midwife….
God never chose the Jewish people for anything. I challenge anyone here to prove it.
If I were a god, I'd carry a cake...or maybe a plate of tacos.
The Bible talks over and over again about the Israelites rebelling and disobeying God over and over again! Be honest about the text. This is not surprising that they disobeyed God. So you are confirming the Bible!