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So I know that Yahweh probably first absorbed attributes of Baal, and eventually usurped his 'father' El as head of the pantheon, but I keep hearing that Yahweh took Asherah, who had previously been seen as his mother, to be his wife?

So is there any actual evidence that suggest Yahweh had become the head of the pantheon with Asherah as his wife? Or could it rather be that he ruled as head of the pantheon with Asherah as his mother?

I recently watched a where someone claimed that Josephus was the son of a high priest.

Just digging around online, I found that apparently, he was the second born son of a priest named Matthias.

There was also a high priest named Matthias ben Theophilus, who was killed by revolutionaries and zealots in 66c. About a year later, Josephus surrendered to the Romans.

According to MATTHIAS BEN THEOPHILUS - JewishEncyclopedia.com, "one of his sons having even sought refuge with the Romans", which sounds just like what Josephus did.

Furthermore, the murder of his father by the revolutionaries could have been a motivating factor for his joining the Romans.

Is there any scholarly work on this possible connection?