A Reassessment of Asherah : With Further Considerations of the Goddess / Steve A. Wiggins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wiggins, Steve A., author.

Series:

Gorgias Ugaritic studies ; 2.

Gorgias Ugaritic Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asherah (Semitic deity).

Asherahs (Jewish liturgical objects).

Asherah (Semitic deity)--Biblical teaching.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 365 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First Gorgias Press edition.

Place of Publication:

Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2007]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Asherah is one of the most popular goddesses known from the ancient world. In this second edition of the author’s 1993 monograph on the goddess, further articles and bibliography have been added to bring this expanding field of study more up-to-date. To date, this monograph contains the only full-length treatment of the Ugaritic material on Asherah in addition to a comprehensive examination of the textual sources from the Hebrew Bible, ancient Mesopotamia, Epigraphic South Arabian and Hittite sources, as well as the intriguing Hebrew inscriptions that perhaps mention the goddess.

Contents:

Frontmatter

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION

PREFACE TO THE 1993 EDITION

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ABBREVIATIONS

1. PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS AND REVIEW OF PREVIOUS SCHOLARSHIP

2. ATHIRAT IN THE ELIMELEK TABLETS OF UGARIT

3. OTHER UGARITIC TEXTS REFERRING TO ATHIRAT

4. OLD TESTAMENT ASHERAH

5. MESOPOTAMIAN, HITTITE AND SOUTH ARABIAN EVIDENCE

6. HEBREW, PHOENICIAN AND ARAMAIC EPIGRAPHIC EVIDENCE

7. CONCLUSIONS

8. THE MYTH OF ASHERAH: LION LADY AND SERPENT GODDESS

9. OF ASHERAHS AND TREES: SOME METHODOLOGICAL QUESTIONS

10. BOOK REVIEWS

FIGURES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-360) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Apr 2019)

ISBN:

9781463213343

1463213344

OCLC:

704519575