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It was published in S.S. Weinberg, “A Moabite Shrine Group,” MUSE 12 (1978), pp. 30–48.

As early as 1967, a somewhat eccentric polymath, Raphael Patai, wrote a book titled The Hebrew Goddess, which was panned by scholars at the time, but which now seems prescient. A third edition has recently appeared that includes some of the supporting archaeological evidence that I have noted in my own book, cited in the previous endnote.

I have surveyed the vast array of both textual and archaeological evidence in a recent popular book, Did God Have a Wife? Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005).

Bellarmino Bagatti, Emmaus-Qubeibeh, translated by Raphael Bonanno (Jerusalem: Franciscan Printing Press, 1993), p.X.

Fleckenstein, “Das Nilus-Mosaik— Versuch einer Interpretation,” in Fleckenstein et al., Emmaus in Judäa, pp. 274–278.

Fleckenstein, “Inschriften and Münzen aus Emmaus/Nikopolis,” in Fleckenstein et al., Emmaus in Judäa, pp. 293–294.

Fleckenstein, “Inschriften and Münzen aus Emmaus/Nikopolis,” in Fleckenstein et al., Emmaus in Judäa, pp. 284–285.

Fleckenstein, “Inschriften and Münzen aus Emmaus/Nikopolis,” in Emmaus in Judäa, pp. 279–280.

Alviero Niccacci, “Der Skarabäus von Amwas, in Fleckenstein et al., Emmaus in Judäa, pp. 297–298.

Avi-Yonah, “Emmaus.”