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you're watching a Nova Video
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podcast at T ROV archaeologists are
digging at an Israelite house that
illuminates the religious practices of
its ancient
inhabitants well we just found this
beautiful exceptional clay figurine
showing a goddess a fertility goddess
that was woried here in Israel here in
this case she shown holding a baby who
is this fertility goddess and what is a
pagan Idol doing in an Israelite
home dramatic evidence as to her
possible identity first surfaced in
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1968 bill dver was carrying out Salvage
excavations in tombs in southern
Israel when a local brought him an
inscription that had been robbed from
one of
them when I got home and brushed it off
I thought I was going to have a heart
attack executed in a clear 8th Century
script it's a tomb
inscription and it just gives the name
of the deceased and it says blessed May
X be by Yahweh that's good Biblical
Hebrew but it says by Yahweh and his
Asher and Asher is the name of the old
Canaanite mother
goddess more inscriptions associating
Yahweh and asharah have been
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discovered and thousands of figurines
Unearthed throughout
Israel many scholars believe this is the
face of
ashara dver concludes God had a
wife even hundreds of years after the
Israelites rise from their Canaanite
Pagan Roots monotheism has still not
completely taken
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hold this is awkward for some people the
notion that that Israelite religion was
not exclusively monotheistic but we know
now that it
wasn't the Bible admits the Israelites
continue to worship ashar and other
Canaanite Gods so such as
ball in fact the prophets holy men
speaking in the name of God consistently
rail against breaking the covenant made
with Moses to worship only
Yahweh the more I called them the more
they went from me they kept sacrificing
to the balls and offering incense to
Idols Hosea
11:2 the Israelites had made a contract
with God if they kept it God would
reward them if they broke it he would
punish
them he would punish them by using
foreign powers as his
instruments events seem to fulfill the
prophet's dire
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predictions