by William G. Dever. https://archive.org/details/DidGodHaveAWife/mode/2up Page 34 The Scandinavian branch of this school tended to be more extreme, positing not only celebrations of “divine kingship” in ancient Israel, but even of the hieros gamos, or “sacred marriage” of the gods. In these rites, priests and priestesses, the king and queen, or even “cult prostitutes” supposedly […]

by Merlin Stone. Published 1976, New York: The Dial Press. Professor R. K. Harrison wrote of the Goddess religion, “One of its most prominent features was the lewd, depraved, orgiastic character of its cultic procedures.” … Professor W. F. Albright, one of the leading authorities on the archaeology of Palestine, wrote of the female religion […]