13 | How did a Mediterranean sea snail inspire the Israeli flag? And is God supposed to have a wife?

Why is the Israeli flag blue? Was Yahweh from Arabia or Egypt? And when did the Israelites stop worshipping his wife, Asherah?YouTube link for this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLswO5O2FfoEmail: [email protected]: @RichardLikesHistory X: @skerkwagga1939Produced by Richard Marais(0:00) 5,000 years of Arabian Sea trade(2:57) Indigo: India's blue gold(3:56) Murex snails in the Mediterranean(5:06) Tekhelet: Biblical blue(6:01) The secret recipe for Tekhelet is lost(6:40) God mandates blue fringes(11:31) Otto Elsner rediscovers Tekhelet after 1,300 years(12:31) Where the hell does Yahweh come from?(15:48) Moses, Midian, and the Burnish Bush(17:59) Yahweh becomes El and marries Asherah(20:50) Babylonian defeath turns Israel monotheistic(23:34) What do we actually know about Moses?