Santa and His Asherah

By David Larsen | Published: December 26, 2009

William H.C. Propp has written an article for the Biblical Archaeology Review online (The BAS Library) which asserts that the Christmas Tree is based on the ancient Near Eastern goddess Asherah (whose cultic image was a tree/grove) and that Santa Claus is an “avatar” of the high God El (or Yahweh).
This looks like it would be a really fun article to read (it’s most likely meant to be good holiday fun), and I am tempted to make the necessary (paid) subscription to the site in order to read the full article!

To check it out, click here.
If anyone has read the whole thing, please let me know what it says!

(via PaleoJudaica.blogspot.com)

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2 Comments

  1. Molly
    Posted December 26, 2009 at 1:09 pm | Permalink

    Kevin Barney wrote an interesting article on Ashera: http://www.dialoguejournal.com/content/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/4104-05Barney.pdf

    Discussion and comments about the article can be found: http://bycommonconsent.com/2009/01/06/comments-on-bivs-critique-of-my-dialogue-article/

  2. David Larsen
    Posted December 27, 2009 at 4:15 pm | Permalink

    Thanks for the links, Molly!