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Author Patai, Raphael, 1910-1996.

Title The Hebrew goddess / Raphael Patai
Edition 3rd enl. ed. / foreword by Merlin Stone
Published Detroit, Mich. : Wayne State University Press, ©1990

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Description 1 online resource (368 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Series Jewish folklore and anthropology
Jewish folklore and anthropology.
Contents Introduction -- The goddess Asherah -- Astarte-Anath -- The Cherubim -- The Shekhina -- the Kabbalistic tetrad -- Matronit -- the goddess of the Kabbala -- The myth of God and the Shekhina -- Yihudim -- unifications -- the Shekhina as Maggid and vision -- Lilith -- The Sabbath -- virgin, bride, queen, and goddess -- Appendix: The goddess in the Dura synagogue?
Summary "The Hebrew Goddess demonstrates that the Jewish religion, far from being pure monotheism, contained from earliest times strong polytheistic elements, chief of which was the cult of the mother goddess. Lucidly written and richly illustrated, this third edition contains new chapters of the Shekhina."--Publisher description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-349) and index
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SUBJECT Kabbala gnd
Bibel Altes Testament gnd
Subject Myth in the Old Testament.
Jewish mythology.
Mother goddesses -- Palestine
Cabala -- History
RELIGION -- Judaism -- General.
Cabala.
Jewish mythology.
Mother goddesses.
Myth in the Old Testament.
Muttergottheit
Mythos
Göttin
Middle East -- Palestine.
Palästina
Israel Altertum
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780814338216
0814338216