Jul 23, 2024 · Asherah and the Asherim: Goddess or Cult Symbol? Exploring the Biblical and archaeological evidence. This four-tiered cult stand found at Tanaach is thought to represent …

Aug 1, 2020 · A professor of archaeology has claimed a 3,000-year-old clay head idol represents the Jewish god Yahweh. However, two other archaeologists have challenged this …

Yahweh [a] was an ancient Levantine deity worshiped in Israel and Judah as the primary deity and the head of the pantheon of the polytheistic religion of Yahwism. [4] [5] [6] Though no …

Aug 28, 2022 · Throughout the Old Testament, we read accounts of idol worship among the Israelites, especially the worship of Baal and Asherah, or sometimes Baal and Ashtoreth. The …

Jan 31, 2025 · An idol was primarily a means of contact with a god, much like the temples of Judaism were a means of contacting Yahweh. Even if Paul did not intend this reading and was …

It seems Israel prepared victuals for idols and called YHWH "My Baal" because they were in their backsliden state. The Prophet is crying in Hosea 2 against a nation that had rejected God. In …

In the biblical narrative, foreign gods and idols represent the deities and religious practices of nations surrounding Israel, often leading the Israelites into idolatry and away from the worship …

Feb 26, 2025 · This study explores the archaeological evidence of a donkey-headed Yahweh idol found in the holiest of holies, the syncretic relationship between Yahweh and the Egyptian god …

Jan 27, 2013 · The Hebrew of Genesis 17:1 has Yahweh exclaim: “I am El Shaddai,” and Exodus 6:2-3 reads: “I am Yahweh and I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as El Shaddai, …

An idol, in the pagan mind, was a living and feeling being. The idol was not necessarily equivalent to the god; the god had a separate (though not independent) existence from the idol. The …