"During the eighteenth dynasty, Hebrew workers brought with them the worship of Anat, a war goddess, and identified Andjety as her husband, symbolising how war and death are bound together."* I can't imagine that there is the slightest of supporting evidence for this statement. Anyone?"


Anath in the Ugaritic myths:

Anath ( a goddess of love, fertility, and war) was Baal's consort.

"She (Anath) seized El's son Mot. With a sword she split him; With a sieve she winnowed him; With fire she burned him; With a hand-mill she ground him; In the fields she sowed him....... Baal returned to his royal chair, to his dais, the seat of his dominion."


Anat info from the Inter Varsity Press 'New Bible Dictionary':

- A bt-ant is listed by Seti I and Ramesses II

- Beth-anath ('Temple of Anat'). The city was allotted to Naphtali (Jos. 19: 38) - the original inhabitants were not expelled but made tributary (Jdg. 1: 33)

- Semitic deities (Baal, Anath, Resheph, Astarte or Ashtaroth) were accepted in Egypt and even had temples there.

- In New Kingdom Egypt, Canaanite and other Asiatic deities were accepted (Baal, Resheph, Ashtaroth, Anath etc.; cf. ANET, pp. 249-50)

(note: ANET = J.B. Pritchard, 'Ancient Near Eastern Texts', 1950; 1965; 1969)

- Anat was Baal's sister, probably to be identified with the Phoenician Ashtart, a goddess of war, love and fertility....



Seems more probable that the Egyptians themselves, who had fortified outposts in Canaan, came across Anat there - also, it was common for 'Asiatics' to be educated in Egypt and they could have brought worship of her to Egypt.

CT