Who Was Asherah?

The goddess archetype weaves through all Ancient Near Eastern religions, wearing different names in Babylon and Egypt. Through the Egyptian-Greek synthesis of Gnosticism and Hermeticism, this figure transformed into Sophia—the divine embodiment of wisdom. While the canonical Old Testament rejects a divine consort, this feminine aspect survived, personified as Wisdom in biblical literature. It is a concept that Talmudic Judaism would later echo through the Shekinah: the feminine, creative presence of the divine.

Who Was Asherah? (and was she God’s wife?) -32min