The lost Goddess of Israel

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Asherah, the most important goddess in the Canaanite pantheon, is known from the immense library of thirteenth-century cuneiform tablets found in Syria at the site of Ugrait. The passages from the Asherah in the Old Testament reflect both the Worship of Asherah and efforts to stamp out her cult in the Iron Age.

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Hollywood holy land

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Mel Gibson's epic drama on the death of Jesus called The Passion of the Christ, shows Jesus's blood-drenched face, the nailing of his palm to cross and the scourging. The film claims to portray the truth but a few scholars would defend the Gospels as history.

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A fight over sacred turf

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The Arab-Israeli conflict over Jerusalem's Temple Mount is discussed. Judaism's holiest site, it held the Second Temple, while Muslim Arabs revere it as the site of Mohammed's ascension to heaven.

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