When God Had a Wife pdf

林恩·皮克内特（Lynn Picknett）是一位主要关于伪历史和流行阴谋论、超自然现象、神秘学以及历史和宗教奥秘的书籍作家。
皮克内特于 1947 年 4 月出生于英格兰肯特郡的福克斯通，在约克的一个鬼屋长大，就读于帕克格罗夫小学和安妮女王文法学校。从大学毕业并获得英国文学二等（荣誉）学位后，她短暂地成为了一名教师、店员和单口相声漫画家，然后于 1971 年移居伦敦，加入 Marshall Cavendish Publications 担任实习副编辑。
在 1980 年代，她是 The Unexplained 的副主编，并为许多其他出版物供稿。她还是各种广播节目的定期撰稿人，包括 LBC 和 Talk Radio 的 Michael van Straten 和 Clive Bull's。她还是安格利亚和南方电视台的电视节目主持人。
1990 年，她担任皇家摄影学会展览“无法解释的巴斯”的客座策展人，并于 1999 年在布拉德福德的国家摄影、电影和电视博物馆担任同样的职务。

When God Had a Wife pdf 林恩·皮克内特

When God Had a Wife: The Fall and Rise of the Sacred Feminine in the Judeo-Christian Tradition

• Provides historical and archaeological evidence for an earlier form of Hebrew worship with both male and female gods, including a 20th-century discovery of a Hebrew temple dedicated to both Yahweh and the warrior goddess Anat
• Explores the Hebrew pantheon of goddesses, including Yahweh’s wife, Asherah, goddess of fertility and childbirth
• Shows how both Jesus and his great rival Simon Magus were attempting to restore the ancient, goddess-worshipping religion of the Israelites. Despite what Jews and Christians--and indeed most people--believe, the ancient Israelites venerated several deities besides the Old Testament god Yahweh, including the goddess Asherah, Yahweh’s wife, who was worshipped openly in the Jerusalem Temple. After the reforms of King Josiah and Prophet Jeremiah, the religion recognized Yahweh alone, and history was rewritten to make it appear that it had always been that way. The worship of Asherah and other goddesses was now heresy, and so the status of women was downgraded and they were blamed for God’s wrath.
However, as Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince reveal, the spiritual legacy of the Jewish goddesses and the Sacred Feminine lives on. Drawing on historical research, they examine how goddess worship thrived in early Judaism and included a pantheon of goddesses. They share new evidence for an earlier form of Hebrew worship that prayed to both male and female gods, including a 20th-century archaeological discovery of a Hebrew temple dedicated to both Yahweh and the goddess Anat. Uncovering the Sacred Feminine in early Christianity, the authors show how, in the first century AD, both Jesus and his great rival, Simon Magus, were attempting to restore the goddess-worshipping religion of the Israelites. The authors reveal how both men accorded great honor to the women they adored and who traveled with them as priestesses, Jesus’s Mary Magdalene and Simon’s Helen. But, as had happened centuries before, the Church rewrote history to erase the feminine side of the faith, deliberately ignoring Jesus’s real message and again condemning women to marginalization and worse.
Providing all the necessary evidence to restore the goddess to both Judaism and Christianity, Picknett and Prince expose the disastrous consequences of the suppression of the feminine from these two great religions and reveal how we have been collectively and instinctively craving the return of the Sacred Feminine for millennia.