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Naked Bible 423: The Queen of Heaven

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Is There a Relationship Between Astarde and Ishtar?

In the epic of gilgamesh, this word camanu is used in in a cultic setting. But it's not specifically related to ishtar. And well, in jeremiah, we didn't even need ancient erystrin comparisons to tell that this was a religious, cultic context. Even though ishtar and astarde are ar basically the same goddess, at least as far as their role is concern. It just seems, even as we see israel and their struggle with the canaanites that are in the land, no, it seems to be a very local struggle where they're being influenced by pagan deities.

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