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 worshipped alongside Yahweh in his temple in Israel, according to an Oxford scholar. In 1967, Raphael Patai was the first historian to ...