The word or name “asherah” appears in the books of Deuteronomy, Judges, Kings, and Chronicles. Some scholars have equated certain texts, inscriptions, statuettes, and drawings with the asherah, identified the asherah of the Bible as a goddess, and claimed that a goddess named “Asherah” was the consort of Yahweh (Olyan, Asherah and the cult of … Continue reading The Asherah in Ancient Israel: Goddess or Sacred Tree?