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#442 Was God’s Wife REMOVED From the Bible? - Jimmy Akin

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The Ashera Poles A.

Until the twentieth century, it was common to hold that these poles were just, that's what ashera was. It wasn't actually a goddess. But then in the twentieth century we found a bunch of xt in syria, at a place called ras shamra. And the rashamra texts are written in ugaritic, which is one of the languages that was spoken by the hittites. They tell us about the hittite pantheon and which was also shared in varying degrees by the canaanites,. The people who were living in israel before the israelites, they did have a goddess.

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