Kevin Barney in the latest Dialogue has a brilliant article, entitled How to Worship Our Mother in Heaven (Without Getting Excommunicated). This article was a mind blowing read, I think it is interesting to consider the role of Asherah in daily Hebrew life. But it is how this article opened my mind to another possibility which I would like to discuss.
In the accounts of the war between the tribes of Israel and Canaanites the Israelites are told to give no quarter to their enemies. Often they were told to wipe out the whole civilization.
In the archaeological record there is some question of the actual warfare during the period and the fact that it appears more likely that Canaanites were the original Israelites. As I have talked about before historical records of ethnic cleaning in ancient times are often non-existent in actual archaeology.
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Jon W 
