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- Опубліковано 16 тра 2018
- YHWH...the God of the Israelites in the Hebrew Bible, and you shall have no other gods before him. But did some ancient Israelites worship another god, Asherah? Archaeological evidence suggests that some Israelites may have believed YHWH had a consort or wife.
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Sources:
William Devers, "Did God Have a Wife?" Eerdmans, 2005.
William Dever, “Archaeology and Ancient Israelite Iconography: Did Yahweh Have a Face?” in A.M. Maeir and P. de Miroschedji (editor), "I will Speak the Riddles of Ancient Times”: Archaeological and Historical Studies in Honor of Amihai Mazar," 461.
Judith Hadley, "The Cult of Asherah in Ancient Israel and Judah: Evidence for a Hebrew Goddess," Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Critical Review of William Dever’s book: members.bib-ar...
Hershel Shanks, “The Persisting Uncertainties of Kuntillet ‘Ajrud,” members.bib-ar...
Dr. Erin Darby interview on pillar figurines: www.coursera.o...
Source on standing stones: Stephen Herring, "Divine Substitution," "Chapter 3: Iconic Israel: Divine Representation, Idol Polemics, and the Awareness of the Relationship between Image and Presence in the Hebrew Bible," Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2013.
Next watch "Mandaeism: The Last Gnostic Religion?": ua-cam.com/video/DMx_JKJbvJI/v-deo.html
Wow, Israelites committing idolatry. Big surprise, said no one who's read any of the Bible.
One of the great heresies, I think, including Manicheanism?
@@tintinismybelgian p
No God but yahweh and Asher are just his people
We know the Israelite people fell several times into the worship of false god's even while they worshipped the one true God, for example, look at Soliman during the fall of his rain. The age of this temple, pared with the timeline of the text actually matches well, the most empresive part is it's still standing, but we all know how the isrialits never could seem to understand the word "all" to mean " all" if you get my drift.
Jeremaiah actually complains about Israelites worshipping Asherah
Mitchell Rutherford The point is YAHUWAH may have a Wife other than YISRAEL
It was post break-up YHWH was really mad, and said no other god existed or had ever existed, and would deny any evidence to contrary..
It was not pretty breakup.
chained2it the heathens aka Babylonians believed their stone gods were inhabited by the spirit beings they represented. I study this so I am citing common knowledge of archeology. Standing stones would be in agreement with Babylonian heathen worship hence adopted by many. This is where Jewish Mysticism stems from. Tree of life in Babylon. Regenerating belief etc (not to be confused with Genesis Tree of Life).
Seriously this comes up in the Bible ALL the time. It would be a lot stranger if archaeologists could find no evidence of Hebrew idolatry.
@chained2it @Life-Lover is correct. I've studied it too. :-) You can still find this practice in, for example, Hinduism, where their idols are carefully dressed and fed. Further, these idols didn't necessarily have to be made of stone. They could be made from other materials as well.
I'm glad your channel exists. It seems like you are one of the only people I can find that doesn't just sensationalize this kind of thing for political reasons.
Yeah those types of UA-cam channels annoy the heck out of me. The archaeology is interesting enough already without putting a political or crazy spin on it.
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@@messianic_scam yes
@@russhall1414 no
@@EnderElohim yes
I’d always wondered who Ashera was and why it was so important to cut down Ashera poles when I read the OT
The kings of Juda saw what happened to the kingdom of Israel when the cultplaces were destroyed, the people of Israel lost their identity. So to prevent this and also to regulate the many way of Jewisniss by the fugitives from Israel a reform was neccessairy to tie the identity of the people to the Script and the autority of the priesthood taking care of the Script to one Temple. It sort of worked, Jerusalem stayed independant for a century longer and when the elite was deported to Babylon they were prepaired to take their Jewish identity with them in their heads. The "lost tribes" of Israel did not have that option as deportees could not bring their cultplaces with them and the ceased to be tribes of Israel deluted in the mass of slaved people.
Paganism .
Are these poles the giant trees that were cut down?
The issue with the "Ashera = object" interpretation is that Ashera is a well-attested goddess. So she was a goddess at some point. And we do know for multiple sources that Israelites were polyteist before they came to only worship one god.
I mean Ashersh DOES mean an object multiple times in the tanakh, whether or not it meant the object or the deity here is still undecided
It is normal for people who recently gave up a habit, like smoking, child sacrifice or polytheism, to become the strongest antagonists.
Ashera with the lower cases A was a different concept entirely, according to the video. It never denounced her existence
@@kellydalstok8900 in what way
The Bible is all about the fact that Jews worship many gods and Yhwh punishes them
I just discovered your channel through your video on the cult of Mithras, and I have to say it's absolutely fantastic! I'm currently in the middle of binging your videos, they're all so in-depth and well-researched, completely fascinating. Cheers!
Jack Rackam woah didn't expect to see you here
Surprising to see you here
covid 19 brought me here
First, YaH Elyon DOES NOT have a “wife”, that is BLASPHEMY...
Asherah are the “Poles”, gathered at the “Alter” for burning of those who worship baal, at the “Sacrifice of Offering”.
Guys, HERE is the Original Semitic Text, PLEASE READ THIS
YaH The Heavenly FATHER was Who they Crucified for our sins and “HERE IS THE PROOF”
From the Ancient Semitic Scroll:
"Yad He Vav He" is what Moses wrote, when Moses asked YaH His Name (Exodus 3)
Ancient Semitic Direct Translation
Yad - "Behold The Hand"
He - "Behold the Breath"
Vav - "Behold The NAIL"
Interesting, I have a Mithril shirt given to me by my uncle.
I have taken Religion classes the past few semesters, and I found your channel at the right time! Keep being awesome!
What have you learned…
Thank you. Your objective neutral p.o.v. is a breath of fresh air.
Fun fact: Asherah in Arabic means companions or kinfolk.
no the word for kinfolk in arabic is asheerah with two E's
@@amshrx Isn't it rather to hard to transliterate Arabic due to it not having the same vowels as English?
Asherah in old Arabic meant either “wife” or “tribe” in Modern Standard Arabic it usually means companions and always references a plural and never a singular. The word most likely got incorporated into Arabic from other pagan Semitic languages of communities that used to worship the goddess and used the word to mean “wife” since asherah’s husband is Baal and “her Baal” in Arabic could mean “her husband”
no one cares what it means in your infidel language. - your friendly neighborhood Jew
@@hiroshima19 You're not a Jew 😆
It's nice to see a show on religion that isn't openly biased, thanks :)
Speaking as a woman: I can state that a storm,
sky, mountain-top dwelling, god, represented by
a bull might not have much appeal to the women
of ancient societies. Their chief concerns were
surviving childbirth without complications and the
welfare of their families. Therefore they sought
the help of goddesses.
Jacob's wife, Rachael, stole her father's household
idols ("Teraphim"). Those idols were important enough
for Laban to follow his son-in-law's entourage and
demand that the idols be returned to him.
It doesn't have much appeal to me either, as a man.
Strangely enough it sounds so much like Hindu God Shiva. Mountain residence- check, bull as a ride- check, storm and sky - check. The only two things we need to add is his love for meditation/sagehood and authority over destruction.
@@uselesshero.official it makes sense considering where we find the oldest civilizations, gods followed cultures as they migrated and the further they got from their origins, the more the gods changed. What's funny is how one god usurped all his contemporaries and then went on to over take versions of those contemporaries nearly 1000 years later in the form of the Nordic conversations
@@uselesshero.official Interestingly enough, Hinduism and Norse mythology have the same origins in Proto Indo-European mythology. We're all more connected than we think.
bible teachings... you can't have woman without man, vice versa, how can we have a Heavenly Father without his wife. And obviously why would her name be listed, as His name and His Son's name have been dragged through the mud for a very long time.
Dear comment readers, please remember that the jews were rebellious to God back in the days.
Solomon also built many templeS for his wives. They worshipped many God including baal, el and other distorted versions of yahweh which was issued to have a asherah for a wife.
Ralph Joseph RJM And please remember that ideas about gods changed over the years. Yahweh could be considered a distortion of El... in fact the OT uses El and Yahweh interchangeably at times
@@scienceexplains302 El means God in hebrew. ELohim, israEl, michaEL, EmanuEL. I mean its obvious since the canaanites also knew God they just had other false gods.
Omen Dragon El means god in Hebrew, possibly because El was the chief god in the older society. Language works that way sometimes. But the Bible also refers to the chief god (they were henotheistic for the most part, e.g. Psalm 82:1) as El or some variation of El.
Please see El (Deity) on Wikipedia. It cites its sources.
As far as the evidence goes, all gods are apparently false.
"Back in the days," huh? One word... Kabbalah. It's everywhere now.
Omen Dragon but YAWEH and El are basically the same thing lol
I like your channel because you´re unbiased, give sources, extra reading material, and make consistent points based on evidence.
In ohter words, your videos do show that you are a qualified religious studies teacher.
Keep up the good word.
Blessings and good wishes from a Muslim in Ecuador.
Digging into proto-Judaism (and proto-Christian) beliefs is always interesting. I kinda wish more people saw it that way and not, you know, blasphemous.
(Also, IIRC, asherah poles were associated with the worship of Asherah, hence the name. If nothing else, they're likely remnants of Asherah worship.)
Agreed. I hope I don't get any accusations of blasphemy for this vid O_o
ReligionForBreakfast It’s quite interesting I’m of Christian faith and these studies are awesome
Wait, surely you've been accused of blasphemy before? I'd be shocked if you hadn't!
None of this would qualify as blasphemy so I don't see why you would
I got accused of blasphemy as a teenager for saying that God was genderless. There are people who reeeaaally like to throw that word around.
Well, god is sometimes referred to in the bible as El. Curiously enough, when he's given different names he tends to have different qualities. Almost like they're distinct beings or something.
Or maybe had different authors and this character never actually existed
Maggie Lynn prove it
Maggie Lynn also which God?
@@verscarii3238 Someone has to be.
@@AvenjaysGuitar Oh boy, here we go again...
I've jumped down a rabbit hole with this channel 🐰🕳️
A rather fascinating rabbit hole it is lol.
Its not an rabbit hole but Suwer hole.
@@koksalceylan3934 for what reason
@@MohammedAli-hl4mr couse evey one who has tube apps can make his own "History".
@@koksalceylan3934 that's true to an extent, but you have no ability to study and no ability to understand who is making things up and who's not
Asherah's connection to Yahweh, according to Stavrakopoulou, is spelled out in both the Bible and an 8th century B.C. inscription on pottery found in the Sinai desert at a site called Kuntillet Ajrud.
"The inscription is a petition for a blessing," she shares. "Crucially, the inscription asks for a blessing from 'Yahweh and his Asherah.' Here was evidence that presented Yahweh and Asherah as a divine pair. And now a handful of similar inscriptions have since been found, all of which help to strengthen the case that the God of the Bible once had a wife."
Also significant, Stavrakopoulou believes, "is the Bible's admission that the goddess Asherah was worshiped in Yahweh's Temple in Jerusalem. In the Book of Kings, we're told that a statue of Asherah was housed in the temple and that female temple personnel wove ritual textiles for her."
El-Elyon the God El is where you get the el ending in every Angel name ie Arch Angel Michia-el, Rapha-el, Uri-el, Etc. and so on.
Scholars have pretty much agreed: The bible stories of Israel in Egypt; the ten plagues; the Ten Plagues, the Exodus; The Wanderings and the Conquest are not historical. David and Solomon probably existed but as small-town chiefs, not kings.
Back in the day (1000 BC - 600 BC), the Israelites/Hebrews, Phoenicians, various Canaanite tribes, had many overlapping gods, believed in the power of their own god/gods, but also believed that other gods existed. This is called Monolatry (belief in many gods but worshipping only one). It wasn't until the second temple period when Judaism evolved into a more strict monotheistic (one god) religion. Just like life, language, technology, writing, etc... religion evolves over long periods of time.
What is the distinction between monolatry and henotheism? I've heard both terms but haven't quite been able to determine the nuance.
@@magicdog9523 Monolatry is a religious belief system where only one god is strictly worshipped, but also acknowledges that other, lesser gods exist.
Henotheism is a religious belief system where one god is preferred to be worshipped, but other gods who may be equal, greater, or lesser also exist.
When Akhenaten outlawed the other gods and only worshipped the Aten, that was an example of monolatry.
The Sumerians who worshipped the patron deity of their cities, such as Enki, Enlil, Inanna, believed that each of these gods were important and varied in their greatness. That is more like henotheism.
@@Emcee_Squared Thank you!
@@magicdog9523 i should clarify that the sumerian system is more polytheistic than henotheistic. A better example might be the Assyrians from the city of Assur, who worshipped their god, also named Assur, as their chief deity, but also believed in the validity of other gods and worshipped them as well, especially when visiting other cities.
@@magicdog9523Well that christian and Judaism. More over christian especially
Most of the ancient world was pagan.
It goes deeper, EL condemned all watchers who undermined God. God then turned rapturing all souls before the Great Innundation, the Lord had no equal only Mother Mary is his wife even then she’s minor compared to the ALMIGHTY.
Asherah dumped El for Yahweh, but after a couple of thousand years, Yahweh grew tired of Asherah, and started looking for a bit on the side. That's when he got busy with Mary.
Joe Caner this makes sense
@J DV dipshits who have their heads embedded deep in their arse that spew bs without comprehension. These mental degenerates actually think they've made a breakthrough.
You must hate long stories!
You've exploded in subscribers since January!! Good to see you finally getting recognition. Only a matter of time before 100k, good sir.
And none is good! None! No not one! You have all tore the heart! Broke the soul! Dont lie to yourself! Change! Change! Change! And face your judgement in nature. I apologize...
@talk2me9ja that was neatly said. Had to sleep on it. It's frustrating how judgements are cast; and some to death. Liberty is good from my eyes and i see God as a person that speaks and has already ordained what is to come howbeit humanity was created from and in the image of god. Yeshuah saves and is record for obedience to a falling world. And gods still don't get it...
First, YaH Elyon DOES NOT have a “wife”, that is BLASPHEMY...
Asherah are the “Poles”, gathered at the “Alter” for burning of those who worship baal, at the “Sacrifice of Offering”.
Guys, HERE is the Original Semitic Text, PLEASE READ THIS
YaH The Heavenly FATHER was Who they Crucified for our sins and “HERE IS THE PROOF”
From the Ancient Semitic Scroll:
"Yad He Vav He" is what Moses wrote, when Moses asked YaH His Name (Exodus 3)
Ancient Semitic Direct Translation
Yad - "Behold The Hand"
He - "Behold the Breath"
Vav - "Behold The NAIL"
Well listening to this you basically said it. Someone inscribed that but it wasn’t Yahweh. There is only 1 True and LIVING God! And he will NOT be mocked!!!!! God is a spirit! As far as this Deity (ashera)being talked about in the Bible it’s an idol!!
Weren't Yahweh and El conflated? Just think of all the Biblical names that have "el" in them as reference to God
It is really interesting to discuss the historical archetypes we've created around the concept of "Abrahamic" religions. People tend to think monotheism came out of nowhere, while the cultural and religious context of the ancient Levant shows a much more diverse picture.
T. Janssen we all know the Abrahamic religions that the patriarchs came first !
Sarah Nyb ?
Sarah Nyb I wouldn’t say that is the first monotheism, God has always existed and their have been the patriarchs before the jews who believed in the creator God who created all life. All other faiths came as a rebellion against the creator by worshipping the creation.
Sarah Nyb I know otherwise. God is very well alive and present today.
@transylvanian okay calm down
I would suggest an alternative explanation: The official religion of ancient Israel (and Judah, later on) was strict monotheism. However, there were a great many polytheistic cults, such as Baal and Ashera. These cults rose and fell in popularity, and at times may have even been practiced by a majority of the populace, and were often supported by the kings.
I think this meshes quite well with the evidence, as well as avoids the need to say that the Bible stories were created from scratch to set a narrative instead of reflecting the reality of the times.
The "Book of Kings" says the Hebrew Kings worshipped false Gods then God punished Israel.
So did Leviticus or Exodus
@Bronze Spectre Literally the same thing in the context of the Bible
God punished them careful how you say that.
there were multiple sources of what eventually became the Bible and a lot were not written in the days they narrated about.
Well, that proves the Israelis worshipped several gods, at least some Israelis and for some time.
It's not monotheism, it's monolatry
I will be giving praise and worship to Goddess Asherah *
Worship Jesus Christ 🙏🙏
Love the topic! The findings could unfortunately mean anything from YHWH's wife to that tree you mentioned. When I heard the tree theory it could shift the meaning of the sentence from YHWH and his Ashira to YHWH and his creation (tree of life). But I'm not a scholar and so take that idea with a grain of salt.
The Bible/ Tanach never say that YHWH had a wife named Asherah, these texts clearly mention these to be false gods/ idols. The Israelites did adopt them/ (idols) though.
It's because he killed her.
@@shadowreveled5107 How do you know this?
Except archaeology strongly suggest that the early Israelites were an indigenous Canaanite population and were polytheistic at first like other Canaanites and slowly through time evolved to become monotheistic. This is even supported by aDNA sequencing which shows strong genetic affinities between Iron age I Israelites and Canaanite populations.
It's far more likely that they were polytheistic and evolved into monotheism.
@@sweaspurdoddd5466 Show the evidence. Israelites may also, also be, "all righteous people". Israelites and Canaanites are two different people. They may have mixed, and the Israelites started to worship their gods. How can you compare DNA taken from Canaanites, do you know any Cananaaites today, to even take DNA from, for comparison, where are they?
“Instead, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, and chop down their Asherah ( Ishtar, Ashteroh) poles." Ezekiel 34:13
"“Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their carved images." Deuteronomy 7:5
Judges 6:28
When the men of the city got up in the morning, they found Baal's altar torn down, the Asherah pole beside it cut down, and the second bull offered up on the altar that had been built."
1Kings 18:19
“Now summon all Israel to meet me at Mount Carmel, along with the 450 prophets of Baal and the 400 prophets of Asherah who eat at Jezebel's table."
Exactly. This was absolutely condemned, many times actually.
It is the cross!!!! Worship in spirit and truth!!!
@@landgdiscount the cross is a device used by the Egyptians or other occult religions to summon the spirits or also called necromancy and sorcery . The babylonians also used a cross the same way. So the cross has been used by the occult but christians think that the cross is holy or something . Christian have no idea what they believe in
@@TorahisLifeandLight we dont belivd the actual cross is holy. Were not out here worshipping the cross.
@@ntmn8444 of course it was. Yahweh was originally part of a polytheistic religion, so when the isrealites were trying to covert everyone to a monotheistic religion, they had to condemn other gods. It’s also why he’s sometimes known as El (head god of Canaanite pantheon) or Eloah/Elohim translating to God which gave him a more supreme standing compared to other religions, after all when power is resting in one position, it’s usually considered stronger.
This is all very common knowledge, and has always been understood for the hebrew scriptures themselves which describe the ancient Israelites as worshiping multiple gods (ie engaging in idolatry.)
Right, the archeological evidence only serves to prove the Hebrew Bible right at the very least, since this was a very common complaint.
Not at all. The Bible transmits the notion that Israelis were monotheistic and the cult to Ashera was marginal. The fact that a temple had space for the worship of her is a BIG deal and not at all common knowledge
@@Dude408fRachel took her father's idols with her, the entire congregation (including Aaron) made bull idols (that matched El/Baal), and the book of Kings clearly states that there was a shift to idolatry. What you say is not correct -in the Old Testament it's constantly shown that polytheism was widespread among israelites, and it often leads to disgraces.
i love that you look at things from an objective point of view w/o meshing opinions about it into the video. you give evidence for all sides and interpretations and that is really rare these days in any practice of analysis or teaching, especially in that of religion!
Wow I'm not even religious but this channel is so interesting that it doesn't matter 😄
You don’t have to be religious to appreciate different religions and wanting to learn of those religions.
Religions are nothing but glorified history.
Refusing to admit the flaws of the past gives birth to religion.
The ironic proof parallell to this video:
It is the woman that has been vandalized, because women tend to bring up the past as examples.
I'm a closeted atheist myself and I love this channel. I love learning.
Same
Being agnostic actually makes these types of channels more enjoyable as you don't have to participate in any mental gymnastics
At one point, the Israelites began to take on the surrounding religions. They didn't forsake the worship of Yahweh all together, but rather they would worship Baal, Asherah and others alongside Yahweh.
Yes, they did. You are correct. He just states that they shall have no other gods before him. They can have their other gods, but they have to worship him, first, and primarily. All other gods are secondary. Ba'al was also the son of Asherah, in some of their local texts. The Ba'als are usually noted as being El's sons. Asherah is El's wife.
early hebrews ALSO had multiple gods. it wasn’t until the persians invaded israel that Zoroastrianism introduced monotheism to those same hebrews.
Yes, you are correct. It was their biggest contention & written about extensively. That's how they worshiped but that wasn't the intent of the way as it was written. It was done but a big no no. It's all through the early scriptures.
Abraham, the patriarch, believed in monotheism way before Zoroastrianism was even a person and/or concept.
@@shoeshinegirl101
it’s amazing how much the religious would rather believe a book of myths and nonsensical scriptures and superstitions…than actual scholars, historians, archeologists who have studied and are experts at this subject matter.
@@darthvirgin7157 I study Hebrew, Paleo Hebrew and the Greek languages for almost 50 years.
I do not support ANY man-made religions mind you. Been there and done that, lol! In fact, they give Elohim a bad name and/or reputation.
With that said, there is a lot of archaeological info proving the existence of the Bible etc.
Take care
@@shoeshinegirl101
and YET, unlike any MORE-on, i’m not going to take the word of some random individual in the comments section of youtube making unverified claims…OVER actual academics. specifically those with no “skin in the game”, especially the SECULAR ones.
Nicely put together! I've read a bit of the first book you mentioned, as a Christian I'll admit I found it a touch disturbing. However, it isn't at all surprising that Jewish people had a wide range of beliefs and their belief in additional gods was heavily scrubbed by the Yahwist camp. Could you by chance explain a bit more about what asherah lower case poles are?
@Mullerornis I have a theory that they may have been originally stakes for crops to grow up against, the way gardeners do with tomato plants. We see Asherah amongst vegetation all the time in the imagery,
@Mullerornis I don't mean THEY the ancient Hebrews were growing tomatoes. I am saying they were growing OTHER crops, and the way- WE modern gardeners -grow tomatoes... they used stakes to hold their plants up.
You are chirtian believe in a begotten so of god then wife of god in no problem 😄
@@xS146roarweirdo. let’s not shame other people’s beliefs and act like the adults we are. want to try again?
Judaism is not a monotheistic religion. It is the worship of a god out of many gods, a pantheistic religion. Elohim is plural. In the beginning Elohim (the gods) created the heavens and the earth (this it is the correct original translation). Let US make man in OUR own image. Again, plural. Yahweh is just one god out of many that said "I'm the head honcho" and "you will have no other gods before me". Notice this wasn't a prohibition against worshiping other gods, but that Yahweh always come first in worship line.
True story: the Bible admits to polytheism in the book of First Kings (I'm pretty sure it's in chapter 11 but I might be wrong about that), King Solomon was polytheist, It also admits that a Moabite deity called Chemosh literally straight up overruled one of Yahweh's prophecies.
Yes, I think that Chemosh is the Sun, if I remember correctly.
Ashera was a heathen god and the Bible states that God condemned His people for worshiping such gods she could not have been god's wife.
@@mingledingle1556 Gottem, lol.
This guy is not a believer so he would not understand that or read it or believe the scriptures to be true .
The church are the bride of christ.We await the marriage supper of the lamb .he will come to take us home he is preparing a place for us.
This is an old topic, it is well known that early Jews were polytheistic, like many ancient religions. Monotheism was fairly common in the Levant, well before Judaism
@@shawncarter5619 yes this s true ,but was the faith of Abraham" Judaisim" ? Seen as Judah as not born yet !
By Ashera! It's the Grand Champion!
I cant believe it's you! Standing here! Next to me!
Would you like me to carry your weapons? Shine your boots? Backrub perhaps?
Israelites were known to fall into pagan religions fairly often....this would explain the paganized version of israelite belief system....
Great video. Well I have nothing to lose. Because I practice Wicca as well as Shinto and Zen Buddhism. However I was raised in a Christian family. I still have members of my family who are Christian. I did read the Bible both Christian and Jewish to get a better understanding of scripture when I studied it when I was young. I also read the book the Hebrew Goddess by Raphael Patai. My opinion is that the smaller incense altar is to Asherah. Because in the Torah they have only one incense altar to their God. Later kabbalists came up with the idea that Asherah was another name for the Divine feminine Presence known as the Shekinah. My thought they were secretly worshipping Her under the name of the Shekinah as well as Elohim a plural word expressed in a singular meaning. Which actually through the former means gods. Great video.
just found this channel and i must say from the few videos I've watched so far i really love the down to earth analysis of these subjects. Most documentaries and TV shows hype it up and present more questions then answers and try to make it a mysterious confusing mess. Your channel really is the proof that the scientific and real research is very exciting and engaging. I will most likely contribute through patreon in the near future. Keep up the good work and thank you.
I agree with you. This format makes history interesting.
There was a lot of diversity in ancient Judaism as is clear from the Bible. The prophets had to define the Judaism we know today.
Considering that the Bible constantly talks about the Hebrews worshiping pagan gods, even though they weren't supposed to, this is really a non-issue. So we shouldn't be surprised when we see things like this. In fact, the Bible itself comes out and says that the Samaritans early on worship to both the true God as well as pagan gods at the same time. So there's frankly nothing to see here, unless you have some sort of misconception of what was going on.
El, the most original, Yahweh is a minor god adapted much later
This was the subject of one of the episodes of the 90's TV show "Archeology", hosted by British actor John Rhys-Davies, during his gig between being the Roman guard who murders Tiberius in "I, Claudius", and Gimli, in "the Lord of the Rings trilogy". Glad to see this theory is still around since it makes perfect sense, considering all the other chief gods of the ancient world were husbands and wives.
Asherah was the Wife and it was a blasphemous faith according to the bible.
Curiously, she was labeled "Queen of heaven" just as we call virgin Mary today.
Just spent my day thinking about it. All I could figure it out is that Mary for real owns that title where this deity does not.
I am Christian and we don’t call her Queen of heaven 🤔 In Russian (I am Russian Orthodox) we call her: Bogorodiza which means “the one who gave birth to God” and not Queen of heaven
Thank goodness someone I trusted investigated this topic. What a good starting off point into it!
Clear, concise, on point, not a word or a second wasted, and as unbiased as is possible to be IMO. Fantastic presentation. Dr Henry, your channel is a beauty. I hope it goes from strength to strength.Great work.
Enjoyed the video. If you haven't already, could you possibly do a video about the similarities of ancient Canaanite and Hebrew religion please.
The White Injun can you prove it that they had no similarity what so ever?
TWI is a troll who just threatens and harangues; best to ignore them.
The WHite Injun Which bible ? the version that you have ? that's been edited a thousand times ? or the hebrew one ? There are as many bibles as there are interpretation, each giving it a different twist and claiming the bible that they have is the perfect.
I don't see any reason to continue this any further so have a good day and bye.
The White Injun How many fucking comments on this video are you going to post? Get your head out of the goddamn sand.
The White Injun you've been corrected dozens of times in these comments. So shut the fuck up.
"You shall have no god *BEFORE* me" and that's the key word. It doesn't says "other than me", so grammatically, it says you can perfectly be polytheist, but you can only worship a deity after you've worshipped YWHW. That's my interpretation, I still need to check out the torah in its original language.
I’ve always thought the same.
Be careful you dont cherry pick a verse because a verse immediately after "you shall have no other gods before Me" (exodus 20:3) stated “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,"
Exodus 20:4-5 NIV. So you cannot worship any created gods anyways, anyhows.
Chronicles 24:18 -And they abandoned the house of the Lord, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherim and the idols. And wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this guilt of theirs. Dueteronomy 16:21-“You shall not plant any tree as an Asherah beside the altar of the Lord your God that you shall make."
It's like a famous star getting exposed by paparazzi in a scandal that he actually had a secret wife.
and a secret son with... what a scandal !!!!
My world history teacher in college put it the best. “Don’t have any other gods before me” doesn’t mean you can’t have other gods. It means you can’t put other gods first. The hebrew Israelites put all kinds of other gods first and made idols.
You are intellectually AWESOME! Keep up the awesome study and dissemination of information.
The object was probably named Ashera for her, and introduced to delete the lady god because of “reasons”.
This is the stuff that started my doubt which finally led me to leave Judaism. Ancient Judaism would actively be heretic today, but resembled other Canaanite religion but the texts were edited over and over to fit a new political narrative.
If they had NOT slipped and indulged in idolatry,
there would have been no NEED for them to be warned by the One God to NOT worship idols...
BILLY MANDALAY how would they k ow if not told?
See this is where your assumptions are wrong, this has more to do with emergence of hardcore monotheism from a pre-established polytheism due to political reasons and not the other way around.
BILLY MANDALAY you are right. The Law clearly says cut down their ashera poles and smash their sacred stones ...so congratulations this guy found out what we've already known , Israel and Judah prostituted themselves out to the Mesopotamian heathen and did conform to the nations around them. Against the Law. Our God hates the whore of Babylon i.e. Asherah i.e. The (queen of heaven) . Trying to suggest the normalization of idolatry is blasphemous no matter what "evidence" you dig up...duh hello the Israelites done wrong even more than the nations around them ,probably could find lots of proof of that. Doesn't mean it's normal or acceptable.
"See this is where your assumptions are wrong, this has more to do with emergence of hardcore monotheism from a pre-established polytheism due to political reasons and not the other way around." The Torah, which due to the ancient scrolls found among the samarians, and the Jews of Djerba who were exiled in first in 500 bc, predates some asherah idols, is evidence that monotheism was established, and that some Jews, mainly those uneducated, lost their later on.
The religion of Israel originated AMONG polytheism. That's a lot different from saying it came from polytheism. One thing you should ask yourself is that, why is there not one egyptian god among the ancient israelite excavations? All the idols are canaanite, despite having centuries of egyptian origins. Could it be, because the law forbid them from going back to Egypt? This would be further evidence that monotheistic law was already established at this time. Just like the Torah says, they lost their way from time to time. That doesn't mean the religion came from polytheism.
All these Christians in the comment section. I mean no disrespect and was a Christian myself at some point, but this very video hints at the “idolatrous” and polytheistic origins of Judaism, something very well attested. How do you confront those facts while believing the Bible to be true and divinely inspired?
The White Injun If the Bible is original and divinely inspired, why does it clearly borrow tale after tale from older cultures, often adapting them after several major iterations? This includes the story of Noah, stories about Moses, stories about Abraham, and many more. Virtually every account in the Bible, no matter how minor, has some precedent among the Assyrians, Babylonians, Hittites, Akkadians, Egyptians, Canaanites, or other proximal peoples of the ancient Near East. Honestly, how do you explain this? How is this to be expected if the Bible is true?
You would have to read the apocrypha to understand. Particularly the books of Enoch. It's all connected. The difference is that there's verifiable history, science, etc to validate the bible, and while there may be similarities in some stories, they aren't the same. Those dieties are now myths for a reason, while the God of Israel still stands regardless of controversy.
The White Injun I realize that there was lots of borrowing going on in the ancient Near East, but doesn't this just show that, again, instead of being the divinely inspired word of God, the Bible is a hodgepodge of various borrowings?
S Miller Moses probably never existed. David likely never existed. Even Jesus may not have existed. The Jews were never enslaved in Egypt. Looking at reeds while mating doesn't cause livestock to bear striped offspring. There is no firmament. Space isn't filled with water. The Earth isn't flat. Snakes and donkeys can't talk. Bats aren't birds. Whales aren't fish. The Earth isn't thousands of years old, it's billions.
These are the conclusions of respects historians, scientists, and other academics; most of them are the strong consensus. Almost every scientific and historic claim the Bible makes is partially wrong or completely wrong. What verifiable science or history would suggest it was divinely inspired? If anything, it is exactly consistent with what we'd expect contemporary peoples of the region to know about the world.
The Bible talks about God fighting a sea monster (Leviathan mentioned in Genesis and Job), a theme borrowed from Mesopotamian stories (Ba'al and Yam, Marduk and Tiammat). It talks about multiple Gods in Genesis and Exodus. It describes angels who we know were originally other deities. It has two directly conflicting accounts of creation right on the first two pages. There is no denying that the Bible is among the latest stages in a long history of completely baseless and unscientific pagan mythologies.
HistoryNET The evidence against the historicity of Moses is very strong. First, it demonstrates that Moses' story, as is the rule for the Bible, is attested in different forms by various earlier cultures. In particular, Sargon's birth story is almost a verbatim replication. Second, you seem to forget that writing did originate in this region and far earlier than the oldest books of the Bible, so surely Egyptian sources would mention an enormous exodus? There is 0 archaeological evidence for it. The burden of proof lies on you, since you are making a positive assertion.
Canaanite and Israelite are not synonymous. They were in fact frequent rivals. Why does the Bible get a pass for gross inaccuracy? Why should I take the omniscient wisdom of someone who does not even appear to know that the Earth revolves around the Sun, and is much bigger than it? Regardless of the Bible's obligation to be even minimally correct, it certainly doesn't do a good job of convincing anyone, you'll agree? As I'm sure you will not be shocked to learn, I do not believe in angels, so that route of argument is probably useless for both of us.
Fundie interpretations, you may be dismayed to learn, are extremely common. Young Earth creationists are almost 40% of the adult population. You make my assumptions out to be myopic or stupid, but in fact, the majority of vocal Bible apologists online are fundamentalists. If anything I somewhat respect fundamentalism; it is honest and straightforward, and believes the Bible to be saying, well, exactly what it says, instead of contorting the meaning through elaborate rhetorical games.
I did not say Jesus did not exist; simply that this is far from an undisputed claim. I also do not actually dislike the Bible or look down upon it; I am, as you might guess, fascinated by the earliest history of the New Testament's oldest books, their ancestry and evolution, their affiliations, etc. I also consider many parts of the Bible to be quite eloquent and valuable literature. I just don't think it's got much *actual* truth to it, just like I can appreciate H. G. Wells without treating his writing as non-fiction.
"You shall worship no God ... other than me "
Meaning there are other gods but im the one you must choose and follow because i helped you out of Egypt
No, meaning he was God. In wilderness they made golden calphs which from being around Egytians that barley knew their past culture. So picking up idols & calling them gods were picked up after being there.
Same way says there is One true God, God of your forefathers not the gods. Lower entities or just fake idols.
@Stefan Urban ☝🏼 Lower entity based on what? That seems like a baseless assertion
@Stefan Urban how so?
Because they are not gods. Your boss is not your friend. A parent is not same as a random person.
@Grilled BBQ this is a baseless and ignorant conclusion, that's all this is, blaspheme. Seek understanding then comment on things.
Love these videos.. As a Jew I can tell you that the Israelites did not immediately go to one God they worship many gods for a long time before they went monotheistic so if God had a wife who cares it's fine with me
The White Injun the polytheistic tribal origins of Judaistic tribes aren't unknown
Ahh.. No wonder God was so mad at the Jews..
Mullerornis How do you know that?
the white: We are not here to deabte what is ultimatly true, but rather, what the Hebrew's of a certain time believed to be true. That is what this video is about.
the white: So you are speculating that the Hebrews of that time (who did not yet call tehmselves Jews) believed in more than one God, but that one God is greater than all the rest? That would make a certain amount of sense.
Never fails to provide amazing content. Thanks!
Am I crazy or is the Yhwh standing stone just gone when you were there? Somebody decided they needed god in their life in a very materialistic sense?
you are not crazy. they show two standing stones at first, and then the one on the left of us is gone. good eye.
Islam claim monotheistic but the fact Allah has three daughters al lat, al uzza and manat (Sura 53:19-23).
Christianity and Judaism claim monotheistic but the facts on bible tell the truth (psalm 82 : 1, about YHWH wife Asherah ; Judges 3:7; 1 Kings 15:13; 1 Kings 18:19; 2 Kings 21:7; 2 Kings 23:4-7; 2 Chron. 15:16). Evidently Asherah was part of traditional official Israelite religion, for an asherah pole even stood in front of Solomon’s Temple for most of its existence, as well as in Yahweh’s sanctuary in Samaria. There is also much extra-biblical evidence of Asherah in Israel from the time of the judges right through monarchical times, including in paintings/drawings, pendants, plaques, pottery, (possibly) clay “pillar” figurines, cult stands, and in inscriptions.
Please continue. I love the discussion.
Yahweh was first one of many sons of El and Ashera and was the god of the Israelites while his kin were gods of surrounding people.
Later, Yahweh is upgraded to be conflated with El making him the supreme being, Ashera his wife and all other gods his lessers.
Later still, Yahweh is now the one and only god and all other gods are now demoted to angels/demons.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you create an omnipotent being. Start small, work your way up, push everyone else down.
What about Ea-Enki who created Adam , who declared the seventh day a day of rest the Sabbath, who warned Noah about the Deluge? Ninki was his wife and Marduk, Ningishzidda, Dumuzi their sons. Reading the ancient Sumerian tablets you find the whole story or history. Lord Ea-Enki had parents too, his father Anu rules the Nibiru in heavens.
Yahweh - YHWH - Yud Heh Vav Heh - Behold The Hand Behold The Nail
His name is what he did on Calvary. Anything else is nonsense
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I was going to explain exactly what you stated but you got there before me. El, or “Ba’el” (Father El) did indeed have a wife and Yahweh was one of the sons of El. Somehow, when the Jews elevated Yahweh to being “the” god, they conflated the son with the father; which can be seen with the relationship between Zeus and Apollo as well as Yahweh and Jesus.
The original Canaanite pantheon of El (the Elohim) shares many traits with Greco-Roman beliefs. It’s difficult to think it’s a coincidence that As-Hera and Hera are so similar.
Further, El is also the original derivation for the Muslim “Al-lah” (El and Al essentially being the same root name). In essence the Muslims decided to go back to the original father of Yahweh as the supreme being.
All of these religions, whether in their pantheistic or monotheistic modes share origins.
@@keirfarnum6811 so what should be believe in exactly? im too interested i just need you to explain it to me better if you would like please
@@gstroyce
Believe that all religions are man-made fictions. There are no gods.
Wow YHWH must have gone through a messy divorce.
I thought this would be about Jesus and Mary but instead it was something I didn't know about. I love this channel. I'm always learning something new
There was some pottery that mentioned Yahweh and Asherah, but somehow it mysteriously vanished. Luckily someone took a photo of it.
Apparently the ancient Egyptians observed that the ancient Hebrews worshipped Yahweh and his consort, Asherah.
" As part of the deal with Egypt, all archaeological findings were returned to Cairo in 1993. They have not been shown to the public since then. "
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-a-strange-drawing-could-undermine-our-entire-idea-of-judaism-1.5973328
@INTREPIDELICA worshiping calf makes more sense than worshiping a jew on a pole, come on bro, grow some brains
Yes, Yahuah's Wife was HILLEL aka Lucifer!! LUCIFER is a Feminine Deity!! The Morning Star/aka/Venus!! Bank on it!!!
INTREPIDELICA since Israelites are originaly Canaanites then it is normal for them to worship their original chief God which is Bull-el (El in the form of a bull). That is one the many evidence scattered throughout the old testament and serves as a reminder of Yahweh's polytheistic origin and so the origin of all Abrahamic religions today.
@@po2384 No it doesn't. They are exactly the same. Grow a brain yourself.
Makes sense, the old testament is full of examples of israelites worshipping other gods. Literally the moment Moses went up the mountain the people lost faith and made themselves a god out of gold.
No gods before me is a strange term especially as the bible multiple times uses the word false gods its almost like recognition that other gods exist
In semetic languages Ashera could mean the woman who lives with someone or as a metaphore who sleeps with him, it derived from the verb Asher that means live with someone, and the Ashera also means the close tribe members or your relatives who live close to you.
Someone on here is teaching Hebrew, and they said: The letter He as a suffix signifies a feminine noun.
hei is indicative of a noun that feminine but not all feminine nouns ends in hei and it doesn't count for pronominal suffixes. Her "noun". (Belonging to her) will also have a hei. In short, Not all feminine nouns end in h and just because there is a hei doesn't indicate it's female. This also only applies to singular nouns.
@@screamtoasigh9984 Thank you. I talked to my Rabbi about it recently, but he just said, "No," without any explanation of why.
And I'm the kind of person who doesn't respond well to answers like that.
You gave me a more thoughtful response.
I still need to study that subject more to get a better grip on it, and I wish the Rabbi would have been more forthcoming with the information ~
Can you please point me to a good source for a better understanding of Hebrew words ending in HE?
I don't understand why people are debating here lol. The simple fact is that the Israelites definitely were polytheistic, and yes, it did take a long time for the complete transition to monotheism. There is nothing to debate there. This video is not trying to establish that fact...we already know it. This video is shedding light on the fact that the god of Israel may have had a wife, which I personally find fascinating, and this video clearly explains the two differing theories, namely that their god did or didn't have a wife (Ashera or an ashera) in a very concise and straightforward manner. The video tells us of two experts with these differing views, and shows us their related books for further reading. I find that online, people are usually biased in some way, and sifting through videos on UA-cam which are designed to educate and enlighten us are hard to find. This is why I would like to thank the person/people who made this video. Keep up the great work!
I always took YHWH saying 'I am your god and you have no god before me' was basically an admittance that there were other gods and to renounce them in favor of himself. Is there anything in the original texts that would dispute this?
Not to renounce, necessarily. Simply that they are inferior. God is to be worshiped first. Any other god is secondary. However, barring idols and depictions of other gods does effectively diminish ability to worship. So technically, you can worship them, you just can't make any idols of them. How convenient for Yahweh, right? This makes it as such that all heavenly deities seem but one in the same being for new believers, whilst allowing believers in the prior pantheon to continue their general worship, so long as Yahweh is given highest deference first.
This is typically see as a commandment stemming from the syncretism of old and newer tradition and the active attempt to suppress the older beliefs to transition to a more henotheistic and eventually monotheistic tradition. Obviously, it was very effective. If you can't put an image to the various deities, they eventually become a blur. Forgotten. Their stories linger on, but now with Yahweh as the central character.
Really a great video, this is the content I subscribed for!
I'd like to think that in Christianity She's known as the Holy Spirit/Ghost due to patriarchy, when it makes more sense for it to be The Father, The Mother, and The Son. A Heavenly Family watching over us.
That's a very bad interpretation.
The Holy Spirit is in the Old Testament, and the Bible does nothing but condemn the worship of Asherah. It's mentioned frequently in the Old Testament, specifically, and always condemned.
Our Lady is daughter of the Father
Spouse of the Holy Spirit
and Mother of the Son
I have also read in a few books over the years that Yahweh was a War God and would send countries to battle against each other as he and his consort 'Ashtorah' would sit in the background and watch. Ashtorah and Astorah are also found in Kabbalah writings.
Maybe do an additional episode about the Jews in souther Egypt worshipping Yahweh and a goddess Anat (and another goddess it seems) as late as 410 BCE. Seems that Ezra's codification of the Torah with the injunctions about worshipping only Yahweh and having a temple only in Jerusalem didn't reach them yet at that time. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephantine_papyri
You would think they would’ve understood it from the days of Moses when Elohim spoke to them from Mount Sinai, “not to have any other mighty ones in My face!” Basically what the first commandment means.
@@shoeshinegirl101 Wait so whos yahweh
@@Iwillmakeitoutofhere Yahweh is the *name* of God. God is not a name - it’s just a title. The same with the word Lord. These are both “titles” and not names.
So when the Bible says “we will be persecuted for His NAME sake,” it’s not talking about God or Lord. If that were the case everybody on the planet would be persecuted including the wicked who use the “titles” all the time. I am a daughter, a sister and a mother. I am also an aunt etc., but my “name” is Jackie. I hope this helps you!
@@shoeshinegirl101 what about elohim?
@@Iwillmakeitoutofhere when reading the Bible when you see the word Lord that would be Yahweh, and when you see the word God that would be Elohim.
Loving your videos and learning a lot. Have you done a video on the historicity of King Solomon? You mention the temple built by him in this video. I had thought his existence, or at least reputation, was not well backed up by evidence. Would love to hear your take on it.
Asherah, asherah pole, the pillar, rising up chakras,the holy divine feminine, holy spirit, kundalini energy, mother earth energy, isis, ishtar, innana, the serpant, Lilith
Thank you for adjective videos this is exactly why I subscribed.
Fun fact: in the Talmud 'Ashera' sometimes refers to a tree or tree stump planted in heathen temples.
For that reason, some later Ashkenazi (European) rabbinical texts forbid planting trees in synagogues, to avoid "asherah worship".
In the grand scheme of history, though, the Sepharadi design of olive trees and hadas bushes in the synagogue courtyard won out.
you are right.
I like your approach.. concise, informative and so far UNBIASED... refreshing.. Cheers!
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The Bible itself described how the northern kingdom brought in false deities to worship, lowering YHWH to just one among many. Judah in the south had its own struggles against apostasy. The prophets called it 'whoredom' with false gods. The prophets proclaimed both the northern kingdom and Judah would have to go through a refiner's fire to rid them of falsehood. Thus, the Assyrian and Babylonian scourges.
This was fascinating, and so well presented. Thank you for enriching our lives with your content. :)
Book of isaiah talks about destroying the pillars/altars of asherah and idols
This is something I've been trying to wrap my head around for a while. Apparently the different sources that may have edited the tanakh changed Gods name from El Elyon from the Canaanite Pantheon to YHWH, who originally was a War god and an Elohim, if I am not mistaken. Then there is the point that the Caananite pantheon may have been modeled after the Annunaki of the Sumerian Pantheon/Religion which is an even bigger possible blasphemy to all the people that follow Abrahamic religions.
I'm wondering what your thoughts on this would be. From what I've gathered there there is an interesting connection between Sumerian mythology, Israelite beliefs, and even the Gnostic beliefs which you had covered in a previous video.
I'm trying to figure this out without resorting to David Icke like conspiracy theories.
The White Injun not the response I am looking for at all but i got it from reading multiple sources (one being a lecture from a jewish religion studies professor at Yale) including what i found on wiki
"In the oldest biblical literature, Yahweh is a typical ancient Near Eastern "divine warrior", who leads the heavenly army against Israel's enemies; he later became the main god of the Kingdom of Israel (Samaria) and of Judah, and over time the royal court and temple promoted Yahweh as the god of the entire cosmos, possessing all the positive qualities previously attributed to the other gods and goddesses. By the end of the Babylonian exile(6th century BCE), the very existence of foreign gods was denied, and Yahweh was proclaimed as the creator of the cosmos and the true god of all the world."
Baccanaso, if you want to go deeper on the topic of the Hebrew bible and don't trust random sources perhaps you might be interested in the Yale course that is available on youtube.
ua-cam.com/video/mo-YL-lv3RY/v-deo.html
This is the first video, you can find the whole playlist on the Yale channel I believe. It is twenty+ hour long lessons. I know it's a lot of material but you can browse through and focus on the parts you are interested in. Unfortunately I don't remember which video deals specifically with the Hebrew pantheon but there's one although references are scattered throughout the course. The professor is not a brilliant talker but she is not a conspiracy theorist, and as an academic she presents the various hypothesis biblical scholars have come up with and what the prevalent scientific consensus is.
Pat Pezzi Thank you Pat, that is the exact lesson I watched a while back, but did not know there were more lectures available from that professor. Thank you!
The White Injun yawheh is the shortened name for an ancient tribal deity meaning "I am he who musters armies", yahweh shabbat.
Mullerornis this guy am i right he keeps sayong that to everyone, to lazy to look it up and to much of a jerk to ask politely lol!
They worshiped all kinds of idols during those times. The bible says that there were at one point only 9,000 true worshippers of yahweh in all the land.
The problem I have with this is she was part of the original scripture and was taken out by the men at the time. Because they couldn't handle women having any sort of power, religious or otherwise.
In Jeremiah 3 it talks about Israel as though they were his wife.
I also want to point out that Zion is usually referred as a daughter.
Bridegroom (Yaweh) and his Bride (the communitiy of believers, Israel bound by covenant Lev 27:2-3 kj). Yes "Zion" is a she and she shall delivered her undefiled child, (Isaiah 66. Revelations 12 kj) "Israel" of the Ancient times or "Jesus" in the Christian sense.
In clasic árabic Asheerah means: "PEOPLE, FAMILY, CLAN, TRIBE"... it could have a relation with the canaanite being both arabo-semitic languajes...
Hebrew Asherah is actually cognate with Arabic Athirah
Im an Israeli archaeologist, probably gonna write my MA thesis on Tel Arad.
I love your work man
So now we know why God said I will not change my mind. For worshipping other gods and worse, you will be conquered, expelled, hated, persecuted. And indeed this happened to Israel and to Judah.
First, love the clip, love the channel, thanks.
Second, quick comment I heard from someone one day regarding the phrasing of the first commandment. It says: לא יהיו לך אלוהים אחרים על פני, and it can be easily understood to mean 'don't have any god more important than me' (before me or on my face/front). So it could be read, in the contezt of that period, as meaning not a monotheistic command but a yahwa-supremicist command
i have heard that there were competing gods from different tribes in the region at this time.
My church actually had a bible study series completely devoted to the term "elohim" and the spiritual council surrounding Yahweh's throne
That's what I think as well, Genesis has Mesopotamian roots so the God of Abraham would logically be King of the Anunnaki instead of The Only God Ever.
@@autobotstarscream765 but the main point of the Scripture is that Yahweh is the only God worthy of worship. Don't worry about who the council is or how many elohim there are, worship Yahweh only
@@imakevideos5377 and the monotheists' claim was that the competing gods were not real, but that their god YHWH actually was real.