Who on Earth is Asherah?

[Pete_1]

Ftang!

Thanks, but the source claims that Moses was commanded to build a statue of a pagan idol, surely this cannot be right?

The ever reliable wikipedia seems to contradict it:

Archaeological excavations at sites associated with Midianite ware at the ruins of Seti II’s temple to Hathor at Timna, in Edomite Seir, have unearthed copper statues of serpents. [3] Whether these were cult images similar to the Nehushtan is unknown.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehushtan

 

[here_i_stand]

I don’t mean to sound blasphemous, but did the Israelites really worship a Goddess alongside G-d? I almost laughed out loud when someone told me this. What’s the real story behind this?

Some say that the idol mentioned in Ezekiel 8:3 is Asherah.
“He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. The Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and in visions of God he took me to Jerusalem, to the entrance to the north gate of the inner court, where the idol that provokes to jealousy stood.” It doesn’t specifically say the name, though.