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Chargement... Asherah and the Cult of Yahweh in Israelpar Saul M. Olyan
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There were still some items and ideas new and useful to me here. Evidently, the Hellenistic syntheses pendant from the Phoenician-Punic literature identify Asherah with both Rhea as ur-mother and Dione as Lady of the Sea, both consorts of Kronos i.e. El (50-51). These data are from Sanchuniathon (preserved in Eusebius), an intriguing source on many counts, and one I had not inquired into prior to these considerations.
I found Olyan's sidebars regarding human sacrifice in ancient Hebrew religion (11-3, 65-8) to be very interesting, and I notice that he has recently published a work on Violent Rituals of the Hebrew Bible, which I may pursue.
In his short "Conclusion," Olyan proposes the connection between Asherah and Nehushtan (a suggestion later explored more extensively in Wilson's Serpent Symbol in the Ancient Near East). I was surprised and gratified by his remark there that "hawwa (Eve) is an attested epithet of Tannit/Asherah in the first millennium BCE" (71)!
Since I have read several other, longer books drawing on Olyan's work here, I was mostly expecting this one to refresh my awareness of some of the arguments around the role of Asherah in ancient Hebrew religion, so I am pleased that it gave me further material and details to consider. But I would still recommend that readers start their investigation of this topic with Dever's Did God Have a Wife?. I am generally sympathetic to the positions taken by Olyan in this study, and I think that the subsequent decades have justified his optimism regarding scholars coming to credit the presence of Asherah in both popular and official religion among the ancient Hebrews.