Asherah: God's Wife Edited Out of Bible?

TIME Magazine has a story on Asherah, goddess of fertility, who was referenced in Hebrew texts and worshipped alongside their main God, Yahweh. Just an interesting artifact from ancient history.

Aaron Brody, director of the Bade Museum and an associate professor of Bible and archaeology at the Pacific School of Religion, says the ancient Israelites were polytheists, with only a “small majority” worshipping God alone. He says it was the exiling of an elite community within Judea and the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 586 B.C that lead to a more "universal vision of strict monotheism."