Reveals the tradition of goddess worship in early Judaism and how
Jesus attempted to restore the feminine side of the faith *
Provides historical and archaeological evidence for an earlier form
of Hebrew worship with both male and female gods, including a
20th-century discovery of a Hebrew temple dedicated to both Yahweh
and the warrior goddess Anat * Explores the Hebrew pantheon of
goddesses, including Yahweh's wife, Asherah, goddess of fertility
and childbirth * Shows how both Jesus and his great rival Simon
Magus were attempting to restore the ancient, goddess-worshipping
religion of the Israelites Despite what Jews and Christians--and
indeed most people--believe, the ancient Israelites venerated
several deities besides the Old Testament god Yahweh, including the
goddess Asherah, Yahweh's wife, who was worshipped openly in the
Jerusalem Temple. After the reforms of King Josiah and Prophet
Jeremiah, the religion recognized Yahweh alone, and history was
rewritten to make it appear that it had always been that way. The
worship of Asherah and other goddesses was now heresy, and so the
status of women was downgraded and they were blamed for God's
wrath. However, as Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince reveal, the
spiritual legacy of the Jewish goddesses and the Sacred Feminine
lives on. Drawing on historical research, they examine how goddess
worship thrived in early Judaism and included a pantheon of
goddesses. They share new evidence for an earlier form of Hebrew
worship that prayed to both male and female gods, including a
20th-century archaeological discovery of a Hebrew temple dedicated
to both Yahweh and the goddess Anat. Uncovering the Sacred Feminine
in early Christianity, the authors show how, in the first century
AD, both Jesus and his great rival, Simon Magus, were attempting to
restore the goddess-worshipping religion of the Israelites. The
authors reveal how both men accorded great honor to the women they
adored and who traveled with them as priestesses, Jesus's Mary
Magdalene and Simon's Helen. But, as had happened centuries before,
the Church rewrote history to erase the feminine side of the faith,
deliberately ignoring Jesus's real message and again condemning
women to marginalization and worse. Providing all the necessary
evidence to restore the goddess to both Judaism and Christianity,
Picknett and Prince expose the disastrous consequences of the
suppression of the feminine from these two great religions and
reveal how we have been collectively and instinctively craving the
return of the Sacred Feminine for millennia.
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