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Ashera en La Biblia PDF
Ashera en La Biblia PDF
13 January 2004
by David Steinberg
david@adath-shalom.ca
Dukstra wrote[1]
“The oldest (biblical) text in, which we meet the goddess Asherah is probably
the ancient hymn I Deut. 33:2-3:
YHW msn b’
zrH[4] mścr lm
hwpc mhr prn
‘t mrbbt qdš[5]
mymn ‘šrt lm
Yea, he came out from among among the myriads of Qodeš (= Asherah),
[1] Meinhardt Dukstra El, the God of Israel – Israel the people of YHWH: On
the Origins of Ancient Israelite Yahwism in Only One God?: Monotheism in
Ancient Israel and the Veneration of the Goddess Asherah (Biblical Seminar )
by Bob Becking, Meindert Dijkstra, Marjo C. A. Korpel, Karel J. H. Vriezen,
Sheffield Academic Press 2001
[4] see note 4 p.105 in Studies in Ancient Yahwistic Poetry by Frank Moore
Cross, Jr. and David Noel Freedman, SBL Dissertation Series 21, Scholars
press 1975.
[5] see note 7 p.105 in Studies in Ancient Yahwistic Poetry by Frank Moore
Cross, Jr. and David Noel Freedman, SBL Dissertation Series 21, Scholars
press 1975.
[6] “The discussion of these texts revealed that scholars differ about the
interpretation (of the Kuntillet el-'Ajrud inscriptions), reading either 'Asherata'
or 'his Asherah' and also about the question whether only the sacred pole is
implied. The initial objection to the rendering 'his Asherah' that a possessive
pronoun could not be attached to a proper name, is increasingly proved to be
unfounded by a great deal of comparative material (Especially P. Xella, 'Le
dieu et «sa» déesse: I'utilisation des suffixes pronominaux avec des théonymes
d'Ebla à Ugarit et à Kuntillet 'Ajrud', UF 27 (1995), pp. 599-610).
Furthermore, this objection is no longer valid if one accepts that 'asherah',
like Babylonian istaru might also mean a synonym or title for a goddess, in
particular, the divine spouse.” Meinhardt Dukstra El, the God of Israel – Israel
the people of YHWH: On the Origins of Ancient Israelite Yahwism in Only One
God?: Monotheism in Ancient Israel and the Veneration of the Goddess
Asherah (Biblical Seminar ) by Bob Becking, Meindert Dijkstra, Marjo C. A.
Korpel, Karel J. H. Vriezen, Sheffield Academic Press 2001, p. 117