Editing Elephantine papyri and ostraca (section)

===Anat-Yahu===
The papyri suggest that, "Even in exile and beyond, the veneration of a female deity endured."<ref>{{cite book|last=Gnuse|first=Robert Karl|title=No Other Gods: Emergent Monotheism in Israel|year=1997|publisher=T&T Clark|isbn=978-1850756576|page=185|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pBSJNDndGjwC&pg=PA185 }}</ref> The texts were written by a group of Jews living at [[Elephantine]] near the [[Nubia]]n border, whose religion has been described as "nearly identical to Iron Age II Judahite religion".<ref name="Noll 248">{{cite book|last=Noll|first=K.L.|title=Canaan and Israel in Antiquity: An Introduction|publisher=Sheffield Academic Press|page=248|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2rnyjxLHy-QC&pg=PA248 |isbn=9781841273181|date=2001}}</ref> The papyri describe the Jews as worshiping [[Anat#In Israel|Anat-Yahu]] (mentioned in the document AP 44, line 3, in Cowley's numbering). Anat-Yahu is described as either the wife<ref>{{cite book|last=Day|first=John|title=Yahweh and the Gods and Goddesses of Canaan|year=2002|publisher=Sheffield Academic Press|location=143|isbn=978-0826468307|author-link=John Day (Old Testament scholar)}}</ref> (or paredra, sacred consort)<ref>{{cite book|last=Edelman|first=Diana Vikander|title=The triumph of Elohim: from Yahwisms to Judaisms|year=1996|publisher=William B. Eerdmans|isbn=978-0802841612|page=[https://archive.org/details/triumphofelohimf00edel/page/58 58]|url=https://archive.org/details/triumphofelohimf00edel |url-access=registration}}</ref> of Yahweh or as a [[Hypostasis (philosophy and religion)|hypostatized]] aspect of [[Yahweh]].<ref name="Noll 248"/><ref>{{cite book|title=Near Eastern Archaeology: A Reader|year=2004|publisher=Eisenbrauns|isbn=978-1575060835|page=394|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=khR0apPid8gC&pg=PA394 |author=Susan Ackerman|editor=Suzanne Richard|chapter=Goddesses|author-link=Susan Ackerman (biblical scholar)}}</ref>