Did God have a wife?
The Shema -- "Hear, O Israel: the Lord is our God, the Lord is one" (Deuteronomy 6:4) -- was the centrepiece of all Jewish prayer services, and monotheism is, fundamentally, what separated Hebrew believers from their neighbours. But was monotheism the only tradition within Judaism? Was polytheism (or henotheism) ever the mainstream conception of God? And did the ancient Hebrew believers also believe God had a wife? After all, the idea of a married deity is philosophically no stranger than the idea of an unmarried or eternally single deity -- right?
Dr Stavrakopoulou says the text of the Old Testament contains evidence of a divine spouse who has been revised and edited out of the mainstream biblical theological tradition.
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