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BILL DEVER: I discovered a Hebrew inscription of the eighth century BCE. And it gives the name of the deceased, and says, "blessed may X be by Yahweh," that's good biblical Hebrew. But it says, "by Yahweh and his Asherah." And Asherah is the name of the old Canaanite mother goddess, the consort of the El, the principal deity of the Canaanite pantheon.
DAVID LEVIN: So why would a Hebrew inscription mention Yahweh with another diety?
BILL DEVER: Well, in popular religion, they were a pair. I think Asherah was widely venerated in ancient Israel. If you look at Second Kings 23, which describes the reforms of King Josiah in the late seventh century, he talks about purging the temple of all the cult paraphernalia of Asherah. So the popular cult so-called folk religion even penetrated the temple in Jerusalem. This is the extent to which the old Canaanite cults prevailed despite the ideal in the Hebrew Bible of monotheism. That's the ideal. The reality was very different.
Originally posted by windword
The Dead Sea Scrolls are collection of biblical manuscripts from what we now call the Hebrew Bible. The texts were found in 1947 in a cave in an area called Qumran, in the west bank of Palestine.
Originally posted by adjensen
Originally posted by windword
The Dead Sea Scrolls are collection of biblical manuscripts from what we now call the Hebrew Bible. The texts were found in 1947 in a cave in an area called Qumran, in the west bank of Palestine.
I meant to point this out to you in our previous conversation, but I recently read a theory that the Dead Sea Scrolls weren't necessarily Essene documents (since some of the stuff in there clearly reflects a different philosophy,) but rather was the doing of some unknown person from Jerusalem who grabbed what they could out of a religious library there as the city was being destroyed by the Romans in 70AD and buried them in the cave to be retrieved once the coast was clear.
As to the thread question, as Wicca is a recent invention, no, Moses was not a Wiccan, unless he had access to Abraham's... well, you know what I'm going to say
Moses was Jewish...
Originally posted by thePharaoh
MOSES WAS RAISED BY ELITE EGYPTIANS
IN EGYPT THE EARTH WAS A MALE GOD...not female
Originally posted by windword
reply to post by Dnepropetrovsk
Moses was Jewish...
Moses was not Jewish, but Hebrew,
www.thefreedictionary.com...
He·brew (hbr)
n.
1. A member or descendant of a Semitic people claiming descent from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; an Israelite; a Jew.
Originally posted by TheBlackHat
Moses...was a politician.
Lets say the Bible is accurate...witch is highly unlikely....but whatever..
There is an all powerful God in the Bible...yet the same "all powerful" God only appears to Moses, in the form of a burning bush...A burning bush....that doesn't sound very impressive to me...but whatever ....
Then Moses goes up a mountain to receive the 10 commandments...of course all this is out of view from everyone else....kind of like what a magician would do...or a con artist....
Again whatever....
And the end up is that Moses and the Jews then wander into the desert for 40 years...
Hardly an overwhelming victory over faro.... but you would think it was a victory the way the Bible puts it.
This isnt me saying there isnt a God...I have my own ideas about all that..and i wont go into them here...and for all I know the bible is all legit...just my opinions.