Okay, forget this... too cross/crown. If anybody's interested, please
respond privately. I think the book, fascinatingly, steps on too many toes.
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From: "Sally Caves" <scaves@...>
> I've come to distrust his scholarship so much that I'd be very
> eager to discuss with someone who has read the book how the hell he
derives
> the notion that the Shekinah, which I always thought meant "God's
Presence"
> or "Dwelling Place," is, and I quote, "the powerful female equal to YHWH"
(I
> presume that it's referred to in the feminine somewhere in the Hebrew
> Bible?) or how he finds in the words Yah Weh "an androgynous physical
union
> between the masculine Jah and the pre-Hebraic name for Eve, Havah."