The typical 30-year fixed jumbo mortgage rate fell 4 basis points to 4.15 percent. The average 5/1 adjustable mortgage rate increased 1 basis point to 3.46 percent. A basis point is one-hundredth of 1 percent. For the purposes of Bankrate's survey, a jumbo mortgage is a loan that is at least $650,000. With a 5/1 ARM, the rate is fixed for five years and adjusted annually thereafter.
God had a wife, Asherah, whom the Book of Kings suggests was worshiped alongside Yahweh in his temple in Israel, according to an Oxford scholar. 1  In 1967, Raphael Patai was the first historian to mention that the ancient Israelites worshiped both Yahweh and Asherah.
Originally Asirtu, the wife of Asir, and asirtu, sanctuary, seem to have had no connection with one another, but the identity in the pronunciation of the two words caused them to be identified in signification, and as the tree-trunk or cone of stone which symbolized Asherah was regarded as a Beth-el or house of the deity, wherein the goddess was immanent, the word Asirtu, Asherah, came to denote the symbol of the goddess.