The Hebrew Goddess Author:Raphael Patai The central thesis of The Hebrew Goddess is nothing less than revolutionary; it propounds that Hebrew and Jewish religion, far from being a consistently monotheistic faith, was, in many periods and in its popular manifestation, tinged with polytheism, and what it even more remarkable, centered on the veneration of a goddess. This goddess appeare... more »d under many names: in the early Biblical period she was called Astarte, Anath, and Asherah who image was worshipped in the Solomonic Temple of Jerusalem for 240 out of the 360 years of its existence.« less