Abbreviated Bibliography
Additional information and references can be found in History’s Vanquished Goddess: ASHERAH published by Emergent Press llc.
-Becking, Bob - Dijkstra, Meindert - Korpel, Marjo - Vriezen, Karel (2001) Only One God? Monotheism in Ancient Israel and the Veneration of the Goddess Asherah.
-Biblical Archaeologist.
-Biblical Archaeology Review.
-Binger, Tilde (1997) Asherah: Goddesses in Ugarit, Israel and the Old Testament.
-Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research.
-Cornelius, Izak (2004) The Many Faces of the Goddess: The Iconography of the Syro-Palestinian Goddesses Anat, Astarte, Qedeshet and Asherah c. 1500-1000 BCE.
-Day, John (1986) “Asherah in the Hebrew Bible and Northwest Semitic Literature,” Journal of Biblical Literature.
-Dever, William G. (1990) Recent Archaeological Discoveries and Biblical Research.
-___________ (2005) Did God Have a Wife?: Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel.
-Freedman, David N. (1999) The Goddess in the Hebrew Bible (vhs).
-Hebrew Studies.
-Israel Exploration Journal.
-Keel, Othmar - Uehlinger, Christoph (1998) Gods, Goddesses and Images of God in Ancient Israel.
-Olyan, Saul M. (1988) Asherah and the Cult of Yahweh in Israel.
-Patai, Raphael (1990) The Hebrew Goddess.
-Pettey, Richard J. (1990) Asherah: Goddess of Israel.
-Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament.
Internet Resources:
“Asherah,” Encyclopedia Britannica.
Berlinerblau, Jacques (2000) “Official Religion and Popular Religion in Pre-Exilic Ancient Israel,” The Bible and Interpretation.
Choi, Christy (2011) “Was ‘God’s Wife’ Edited Out of the Bible?” Time NewsFeed.
Hadley, Judith M. (2000) The Cult of Asherah in Ancient Israel and Judah: Evidence for a Hebrew Goddess.
Hestrin, Ruth (1991) “Understanding Asherah - Exploring Semitic Iconography,” Biblical
Archaeology Review at the Center for Online Judaic Studies.
Long, Asphodel P. (1996) “Asherah, the Tree of Life and the Menorah: Continuity of a Goddess Symbol in Judaism?”
Peterson, Daniel C. (2000) “Nephi and His Asherah,” BYU Maxwell Institute for Religion
Scholarship.
Scham, Sandra (2005) “The Lost Goddess of Israel,” Archaeology.
Stavrakopoulou, Frencesca (2011) “Did God Have a Wife?” BBC’s Bible’s Buried Secrets.
Stehlik, Andrew (2012) Did YHWH Have a Wife?
Stuckey, Johanna H. (2004) “Asherah: Supreme Goddess of the Ancient Levant,” MatriFocus.
Taylor, J. Glen (1994) “Was Yahweh Worshiped as the Sun? Israel’s God was abstract, but he may also have had a consort,” Biblical Archaeology Review.
Viegas, Jennifer (2011) “God’s Wife Edited Out of the Bible - Almost,” DiscoveryNews.
Watkins, Justin (2007) “Athirat: as Found at Ras Shamra,” BYU.
Witcombe, Christopher L. C. E. (2000) “Eve and the Identity of Women: 6. The Old Testament, Women & Evil,” Sweet Briar College.
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