Did God Have a Wife?: Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel

Author:William G. Dever
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2008-07-16T01:52:00+00:00

(2) The only known full-fledged Israelite temple of the monarchic period is the one excavated at Arad, east of Beersheba, by Yohanan Aharoni in the 196os. This building was controversial from the moment of its discovery. Some scholars argued that it could not have been a "temple": there weren't supposed to be any. Others thought it simply a desert "tabernacle." Still others assumed that it might have been a temple of sorts, but surely not "Israelite." And estimates of the date ranged all the way from the Loth century B.C. to the 7th century B.C.

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