TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wiggins,Steve A.
TI  - A Reassessment of Asherah: With Further Considerations of the Goddess 
T2  - Gorgias Ugaritic Studies
SN  - 9781593337179
U1  - 220 
PY  - 2007///]
CY  - Piscataway, NJ : 
PB  - Gorgias Press, 
KW  - RELIGION / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463213343
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