God had a wife, Asherah, whom the Book of Kings suggests was worshipped alongside Yahweh in his temple in Israel, according to an Oxford scholar. In 1967, Raphael Patai was the first historian to ...

New archaeological and textual evidence suggests that ancient Israelites once worshipped a divine feminine figure named Asherah alongside Yahweh. Long hidden or dismissed, Asherah was revered as a ...

God had a wife, Asherah, whom the Book of Kings suggests was worshiped alongside Yahweh in his temple in Israel, according to an Oxford scholar. In 1967, Raphael Patai was the first historian to ...

Atheist Dr Francesca Stavrakopoulou says that the Almighty, known as Yahweh, had a partner called Asherah who was worshipped. The scholar's controversial claims are being explored in BBC2 series ...