He used to. The ancient Jews were pagans originally. They had many gods. The head god had a wife.
You must realize the Jews were constantly worshipping pagan Gods on the side.
In the book of Kings, half of the nation started worshipping giant bull statues.
In the book of Judges, there was a guy who had his own little temple setup filled with all sorts of pagan Gods.
There is a famous passage where a king seeks counsel of Baal instead of the Jehovah.
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So yes, you probably can find that there were some Jews who wanted to worship an aphrodite like goddess and pretend that was the wife of the God Moses taught them.
But to consider this anything more than apostasy is foolish.
I mean, Jezebel herself dwelled in the Hebrew lands. You can dig up the idols she worshipped and claim it was a widespread accept practice and part of Judaism. But..why do that?
And if you did, you are basically saying the prophets were the ones who were apostate, seeing how they condemned such worship constantly.
Even more curious is the article you give actually talks about how the prophets of God condemned worship of this false God.
do you think that Judaism is as old as humanity? were people Jews in the stone age? the religion evolved. there is much evidence that they used to have many gods and then at some point they shifted to monotheism