Scholars are saying that early versions of the Bible featured Asherah, a fertility goddess who may have been God's wife.

Francesca Stavrakopoulou is a senior lecturer at the University of Exeter in England, with a focus on Israelite and Judahite history and religion.  

"Archaeological evidence as well as details in the Bible, indicate not just that he was on of several worshipped in ancient Israel, but that he was also coupled with a goddess, who was worshipped in his temple in Jerusalem," she says.  "The Almighty's wife was presented as a deity in Israel, who sat alongside him."

And why is she not in our Bibles now? Editors of the text all but removed her form the sacred book.

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