Hebrew Goddess.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword by William G. Dever -- Preface to the Third Enlarged Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Ubiquitous Goddess -- 2 "Church"-less Judaism -- 3 The Masculine Godhead -- 4 The Genius of Idolatry -- 5 The Hebrew Goddess -- I The Goddess Asherah -- 1 The Problem -- 2 The Canaanite Asherah -- 3 What Was the Hebrew Asherah? -- 4 Solomonic Idolatry -- 5 Asherah in Israel -- 6 Asherah in Judah -- 7 Ezekiel's "Image of Jealousy -- 8 Conclusion -- 9 Addendum: New Discoveries -- II Astarte-Anath -- 1 The Canaanite Astarte -- 2 Astarte in the Bible -- 3 The Archaeological Evidence -- 4 The Ugaritic Myth of Anath -- 5 Anath in the Bible -- III The Cherubim -- 1 The Ivory Cherubim -- 2 The Cherubim of the Desert Tabernacle -- 3 The Cherubim of Solomon's Temple -- 4 The Cherubim as Yahweh's Mounts -- 5 Philo's Cherubim -- 6 Josephus on the Cherubim -- 7 The Cherubim in Embrace -- 8 The Provenance of the Cherubim-in-Embrace -- 9 The Cherubim in the Middle Ages -- 10 Conclusion -- IV The Shekhina -- 1 The "Dwelling" of God -- 2 Hokhma-Wisdom -- 3 The Early Shekhina -- 4 Personification -- 5 The Shekhina Confronts God -- 6 The Feminine Shekhina -- 7 Conclusion -- V The Kabbalistic Tetrad -- 1 TheKabbala -- 2 The Tetragrammaton -- 3 Ancient Tetrads -- 4 The Father and the Mother -- 5 The Son and the Daughter -- 6 The Tetrad as Myth -- Illustrations follow page -- VI Matronit-The Goddess of the Kabbala -- 1 The Goddess of Love and War -- 2 The Matronit in Ibpular-Mythical View -- 3 The Virginal Matronit -- 4 The Lover of Men and Gods -- 5 The Motherly Matronit -- 6 The Warlike Matronit -- 7 Mary and the Matronit -- 8 The Meaning of the Matronit -- VII TheMythofGodandtheShekhina -- 1 Scholars and Myth in the Kabbala -- 2 The Central Myth of the Kabbala -- VIII Yihudim-Unifications.

1 The Zohar on Unifications -- 2 The Kawanot of Luria -- 3 The Spread of the Tihudim -- 4 Hasidic Masters on the Tihudim -- 5 Opposition to the Tihudim: The Halakhic Side -- 6 Influence on the Non-Hasidim -- 7 The Witness of the Prayer Books -- 8 The Tihudim Today -- 9 Tihudim in Exorcism -- 10 Tihudim for Their Own Sake -- 11 Expiatory and Purificatory Tihudim -- 12 The Common Man and the Shekhina -- IX Hie Shekhina as Maggid and Vision -- 1 As Maggid -- 2 In Visions -- X Lilith -- 1 The Background -- 2 Isaiah 34:14 -- 3 The Talmudic Lilith -- 4 Lilith of the Bowls -- 5 The Birth of Lilith -- 6 Lilith and the Cherubim -- 7 Lilith and Adam -- 8 Lilith the Succuba -- 9 Lilith the Child-Killer -- 10 Lilith and Naamah -- 11 Lilith and Samael -- 12 The Two Liliths -- 13 Lilith's Triumph and End -- 14 Conclusion -- XI The Sabbath-Virgin, Bride, Queen, and Goddess -- 1 Sabbath and Sex -- 2 The Sabbath of Philo -- 3 The Talmudic Antecedents -- 4 The Falasha Sabbath -- 5 The Kabbalistic Sabbath -- 6 The Mystical Union -- Conclusion -- Appendix: The Goddess in the Dura Synagogue? -- 1 The Synagogue and Its Murals -- 2 Goodenough's Interpretation: Anahita -- 3 Criticism of Goodenough's Interpretation -- 4 Moses in the Arms of the Shekhina -- 5 The Ark of Bulrushes, the Ark of the Covenant, and the Temple -- 6 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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