God's Wife with Francesca Stavrakopoulou
Data Over Dogma
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The Uniqueness of Goddesses in Ancient Southwest Asia and Israel
I wanted to use the discussion of gender and contemporary academia as a springboard into you've done a lot of research on sex and gender in the ancient world. Can you tell us what is unique, interesting about the divine profiles of the goddesses in ancient Southwest Asia and even in ancient Israel? Wow. I think everyone knows that obviously no Israelites were ever worshipped any goddesses. Like obviously there's no female gods in sort of biblical history. That couldn't be. Yeah.
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