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Proving Yahweh Killed His Wife (Zechariah 5:5-11)
Abstract
Using an alternative form of scholarship, issues concerning how meaning is determined when reading an ancient text, the development of monotheism with the resulting need to reinterpret older Yahwistic texts, and how to understand divine motivations are explored. The piece is cast as a class action suit brought by modern humans against Yahweh in the heavenly court for murdering his wife, Asherah, citing Zech. 5:5-11 as evidence to support the accusation. Yahweh is defendant, self-appointed counsel and judge, whose cross-examination highlights all three issues. The case remains unresolved, as do answers to the issues.
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The elimination of the goddess is probably reflected in Zechariah 5.
“The goddess, whose elimination is probably reflected in Zechariah 5, returned in a certain way through the personification of Wisdom in Proverbs 8”
From Yhwh, the Goddess and Evil: Is 'monotheism' an adequate concept to describe the Hebrew Bible's discourses about the God of Israel? (2013) · cites this paper as Edelman 2003
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R�mer, T. C. (2013) · Verbum et Ecclesia · doi:10.4102/ve.v34i2.841 · Cited by 10
“Several commentators (Uehlinger 1994; Edelman 2003) have argued with good reason that this vision reflects the expelling of the goddess from Jerusalem to a ‘pagan’ nation, and this may well be the case.”
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- Authors
- Edelman, D.
- Affiliations
- University of Sheffield (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Edelman, Diana
- Venue
- Biblical Interpretation
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2003
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 335-344
- ISSN
- 0927-2569 (ISSN-L)
- 1568-5152
- OpenAlex
- W2073909156
- Cited by
- 2
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Biblical Interpretation (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Biblical Studies and Interpretation
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Qur’anic Interpretation Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Religion, Theology, History, Judaism, Christianity
- Keywords
- Asherah, Yahweh, monotheism, heavenly court
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