Dever: We want to make the Bible history ... but it says "by Yahweh and his Asherah." Asherah is the name of the old Canaanite Mother Goddess, the consort of El, the principal deity of the ...

YHWH...the God of the Israelites in the Hebrew Bible, and you shall have no other gods before him. But did some ancient Israelites worship another god, Asherah? Archaeological evidence suggests that ...