5 Matching Annotations
  1. Last 7 days
    1. Psalm 82

      Psalm 82 is about God condemning other "gods." Psalm 82 also puts "gods" as lower case and in quotations. This could mean that these others were not gods but human beings. When searching up the meaning of Psalm 82, there were sites saying these "gods" could have been humans who wanted power.

    1. For example, Proverbs 8 personifies Wisdom (Hokmah in Hebrew) as a female figure who was with God from the beginning of creation. Several scholars have argued that this personified Wisdom is actually a sanitized version of Asherah, transformed by later editors from a goddess into an abstract concept while retaining feminine qualities and language that suggest an intimate relationship with God.

      I searched up this idea of the feminine idea of "Wisdom." I first looked into Proverbs 8. Proverbs 8 does have Wisdom in a feminine lens as Proverbs 8:1 states "Does not wisdom call out? Does not understanding raise her voice?" https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%208&version=NIV

      When searching up who Wisdom was, I read more about who this figure is. Jewish Women's' Archive has an article about why Wisdom is portrayed as a feminine figure. The article states the idea of the word "wisdom" is a feminine noun in Hebrew. The site also gives the idea that this can be the case to be a counterpoint to a negative form of a woman, referred to as "loose woman." https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/woman-wisdom-bible

    2. Notably, in Jeremiah 44, the women defend their worship of the Queen of Heaven, arguing that they prospered when they honored her and suffered only when they stopped—suggesting this practice was both longstanding and widely accepted.

      Jeremiah 44 is titled as "Disaster Because of Idolatry." The passage discusses how it people were worshipping a "Queen of Heaven." But, this was a form of idolatry as Jeremiah questioned them that the Lord provides for them and asked if they remember that. This text from the Bible is rejecting the idea of people worshipping another god. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2044&version=NIV

    3. Most scholars now agree that Yahweh, the God of ancient Israel, was originally worshipped alongside a female consort named Asherah.

      I am wondering how many scholars agree about this statement. When searching this up broadly on Google, this topic is still a wide debate with many still saying no. Especially looking into the Google platform, there are sites like https://versebyverseministry.org/bible-answers/does-god-have-a-wife and https://www.biblegateway.com/blog/2011/03/did-god-have-a-wife/ that state that the answer is no to this question. This idea of the chatbot wording this sentence adds a hint of bias for the reader to believe the information the bot is going to spit out below, by trying to gain their trust in the introduction.