Gods, Goddesses, and the Women Who Serve Them by Susan Ackerman is an excellent series of essays mainly confined to the topics of the goddess(es) in Ancient Israel, and the Israelite society. There is a lot of great material here, and much food for thought. This and all studies like this suffer from the comparison fallacy. Ackerman compares different rites and cultic activities from Bronze and Iron Age Greece, Mesopotamia, and Egypt. It provides interesting material, but we have no proof of any connections between these cultures. This is not the author’s fault – just an impediment to any ancient Israel study.
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