God's Wife with Francesca Stavrakopoulou
Data Over Dogma
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The Origins of El Shaddai in the Bible
In Genesis 49, we have got this kind of series of divine blessings where you have an appeal to El Shaddai. Some people argue that word pair is a, you know, our titles or epithets for goddess and Marcus Smith argues that this is a title of Ashara. So yeah, we have traces of these goddesses in our texts, which is exciting.
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