Discover the suppressed history of the Canaanite and Hebrew Goddess Asherah.*
Worshipped in Jerusalem’s Solomonic Temple for hundreds of years, and the last surviving Goddess in Palestine, Asherah’s ubiquitous popularity conflicted with the rise of monotheism and the formation of the Old Testament.
Asherah's days were numbered; she would soon be eliminated also and vanquished from the religious record.
History’s Vanquished Goddess Asherah explores suppressed facets of Asherah's historical record (some discussed for decades in academia) including:
-30+ Asherah inscriptions spanning 2,000 years (pg. 271-2),
-a 2,000-year-old childbirth protective prayer to Asherah (229),
-100s of archaeological artifacts,
-4 Hebrew blessing inscriptions pairing Asherah with Yahweh 7 times (141-195, 207, 209, 211),
-the biblical divorce of Asherah and Yahweh (156),
-Asherah as the central figure of a deity trinity (47-71),
-biblical allusions to Asherah, emendations and biblical Asherah deletions (272),
-the 7-branched menorah was iconographically stylized after Asherah’s cultic tree image (206, 208, 224),
-Eve was an epithet of Asherah during the first millennium BCE (111) and
-that Jewish Rabbinic tradition attributed menstruation to Eve/Asherah having sex with the serpent in the Garden of Eden (11),
-how Asherah’s signature was used to help convict a priest of witchcraft (243),
-Asherah’s ancestress and humanity’s oldest sculpted art object, a 250,000-year-old female figurine (253),
and many other testaments to Asherah’s prominent role in antiquity.
As the shovels of archaeology resurrect what the pens of history forgot, Asherah’s lost history is reconstructed with:
555 archaeological drawings,
183 descriptive mini-maps and
1,183 expert references including William G. Dever, Raphael Patai, Ruth Hestrin, William F. Albright, Frank M. Cross, David N. Freedman, James B. Pritchard and other notable scholars.
The 316-page print book is a macrocosmic analysis; the condensed 186-page ebook is in a fixed page format (due to the vast amount of material) and best viewed on an iPad, tablet or computer.