Asherah, ancient West Semitic goddess, consort of the supreme god. Her principal epithet was probably “She Who Walks on the Sea.” She was occasionally called Elath (Elat), “the Goddess,” and may have also been called Qudshu, “Holiness.” According t
In Ugarit myth, Asherah played an important role as a wife of the supreme god El and gave birth to seventy gods. Although Asherah appears 40 times in the Hebrew Scripture, this paper focuses on two verses (Judges 3:7 and I Kings 18:19), which implies that Asherah might be a ...
William Dever, author of “Did God Have a Wife?”, asserts that Asherah is associated with the Egyptian goddess Hathor which is the form in which she was worshiped by the Judean/Kenite copper miners, who worshiped her at her temple in theTimna Valley. The Judean Asherah as Hathor was ...