구약 야훼의 배우자이자 민중종교로서 ‘아세라’(Asherah) 여신(女神) (The Goddess, Asherah as a Consort of Yahweh and Minjoong Religion in the Old Testament)

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· 저자명 : 김은규

초록

The purposeof this thesis is to reinterpret the goddess asherah of the Old Testament in the light of Minjoong and feminism theology. The goddess asherah has been misunderstood the chieftain of idolatry with Baal by the deuteronomistic historian. However, the goddess asherah was continued to be worshipped during Israel’s monarchy until Babylon exile, 587 b.c. While Israel’s society was prevailed with the ruling yahwism, the isolated people, whowere Minjoong and women worshiped asherah of indigenous goddess in Canaan. Asherah, consort of Yahweh was existed to worshipped legally in both North and South, in the Old Testament before the appearance of deuteronomistic historians.
Asherah is expressed only 4 times in the Prophetic books among 36 times in the deuteronomistic historical books and Chronicle books. It means that the most of prophets did not criticize and blame asherah. I think that minjoong and women identified the same emotional feelings with the prophets, particularly in the marginal society.
I think that asherah gave the liberated values to them. And I see that the steps moving from polytheism to monotheism are simply not exclusive gods, but the social, political and religious controlby the ruling power and elite class. We have not to limited the below the historical view of deuteronomistic historian’s monotheism and the prohibitionof the idolatry, and have to overcome the simple mechanical view as to see asherah and Baal who were represented the affluent materialism and sexual depravation. Deuteronomistic history has not to be used in a religious logic expanding and ruling Christian empire until today after Christianity became to national religion in the Rome empire, and have not to raise the religious troubles and conflicts any more.

영어초록

The purposeof this thesis is to reinterpret the goddess asherah of the Old Testament in the light of Minjoong and feminism theology. The goddess asherah has been misunderstood the chieftain of idolatry with Baal by the deuteronomistic historian. However, the goddess asherah was continued to be worshipped during Israel’s monarchy until Babylon exile, 587 b.c. While Israel’s society was prevailed with the ruling yahwism, the isolated people, whowere Minjoong and women worshiped asherah of indigenous goddess in Canaan. Asherah, consort of Yahweh was existed to worshipped legally in both North and South, in the Old Testament before the appearance of deuteronomistic historians.
Asherah is expressed only 4 times in the Prophetic books among 36 times in the deuteronomistic historical books and Chronicle books. It means that the most of prophets did not criticize and blame asherah. I think that minjoong and women identified the same emotional feelings with the prophets, particularly in the marginal society.
I think that asherah gave the liberated values to them. And I see that the steps moving from polytheism to monotheism are simply not exclusive gods, but the social, political and religious controlby the ruling power and elite class. We have not to limited the below the historical view of deuteronomistic historian’s monotheism and the prohibitionof the idolatry, and have to overcome the simple mechanical view as to see asherah and Baal who were represented the affluent materialism and sexual depravation. Deuteronomistic history has not to be used in a religious logic expanding and ruling Christian empire until today after Christianity became to national religion in the Rome empire, and have not to raise the religious troubles and conflicts any more.

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