You're listening to the ancient tradition. A Wonk Media production. Music provided by Joseph McDade. Here's your host, Dr. Jack Logan.

Welcome to the ancient tradition. I'm your host, Jack Logan.

Welcome to the program. It's great to have all of you listening in today. It's beautiful outside my window. I hope it's

the same outside yours. Today's episode is jam-packed. So I'm going to just jump right in.

Before I do, though, I want to let our new listeners know that this podcast has a companion

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Sometimes there's a delay between episodes, so if you're curious

as to when the next episode will be released, check out the website because we usually post

updates there. For the past couple of episodes, we've been examining who God is. You've probably

noticed that much of what the ancients taught about the nature of God

is at odds with what much of the modern world teaches about the nature of God. And one such

source of difference is God's marital status. In the past two episodes, we've seen that the ancients taught that

God does not rule over the heavens as a solitary being. They taught that God is married, that

he rules over the heavens with his divine consort, his wife, the queen of heaven. A divine woman who we learned in our last episode is

described in the Ugaritic literature as Kadesh, the personification of holiness, the

personification of sacred space, which is quite something. So in those episodes, we established that the

high god in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Canaan were married. And then we also looked at some

archaeological evidence that indicated that some Israelites during the first temple period,

particularly in the vicinity of Jerusalem, believed that the Israelites during the first temple period, particularly in the vicinity of Jerusalem,

believed that the God of the Old Testament was married. So today we're going to wrap up our

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