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Title: Outdated book
Review: This is outdated scholarship that continues to be reprinted because it is trendy and publishers can make money. Raphael Patai is not a "noted scholar", but a learned rabbi whose understanding of the topic is based on comparative religion models from the turn of the last century. He is an amateur who has done some research and woven a popular account on a trendy topic. For a noted scholar's popular account, people should read Dever's Did God Have a Wife? A much better book by a much more qualified author. Or, get Carol Meyers book, Households and Holiness: Religious Culture of Israelite Women.
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