Relationships

2,079 typed, source-backed relationships between entities. Each row records a directed relationship (subject → type → object) with a justifying source and rationale note. See relationship_types for the full controlled vocabulary of 70 relationship types. Key types: reception_of / received_as (transmission across traditions), equated_with (interpretatio graeca / analogues), parent_of (genealogy), member_of (collective membership), emanates_from (Gnostic/Neoplatonic structure).

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subject_entity_id
{'description': 'The entity initiating or holding the relationship'}
relationship_type
{'description': 'Typed relationship from the controlled vocabulary (see relationship_types table)'}
object_entity_id
{'description': 'The entity receiving or targeted by the relationship'}
confidence
{'description': 'high / medium / low / speculative'}
rationale
{'description': 'Scholarly justification for the relationship, with source citations'}
source_id
{'description': 'Primary source justifying this relationship'}
period_id
{'description': 'Historical period in which this relationship is attested (null = all periods)'}

2 rows where subject_entity_id = "ENT_CAN_ASHERAH"

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relationship_id ▼ subject_entity_id relationship_type object_entity_id confidence rationale source_id review_status period_id
1378 Athirat/Asherah ENT_CAN_ASHERAH received_as Sophia/Wisdom ENT_ISR_SOPHIA low Contested scholarly hypothesis: Asherah (consort of El at Ugarit) suppressed by Deuteronomistic reforms may have been sublimated into the figure of Sophia/Wisdom as El's companion in Proverbs 8:22–31 ("beside him, like a master workman"). Both occupy the consort-of-the-high-god position. Scholars including Schäfer and Hadley have proposed the connection; DDD_BIBLE s.v. "Asherah" reviews the hypothesis without firm resolution. Low confidence: the sublimation is plausible but unverifiable from primary texts. Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible SRC_DDD_BIBLE reviewed Second Temple Period PER_ISR_SECOND_TEMPLE
1448 Athirat/Asherah ENT_CAN_ASHERAH received_as Shekhinah ENT_JM_SHEKHINAH low The most speculative chain in the feminine divine transmission: Raphael Patai (The Hebrew Goddess, 1967) argues that the suppressed Asherah (goddess-beside-El) resurfaces in the Kabbalistic Shekhinah, maintaining the goddess-beside-God structural position across two millennia of monotheistic sublimation. Scholem is more cautious. The chain Asherah → Sophia → Shekhinah (established via the prior Canaanite→Israelite reception script) is the full proposed transmission. Low confidence: the hypothesis is influential but unverifiable from primary texts alone. Gershom Scholem, Kabbalah SRC_SCHOLEM_KABBALAH reviewed Jewish Mystical Medieval PER_JM_MEDIEVAL

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CREATE TABLE "entity_relationships" (
   [relationship_id] INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
   [subject_entity_id] TEXT REFERENCES [entities]([entity_id]),
   [relationship_type] TEXT REFERENCES [relationship_types]([relationship_type]),
   [object_entity_id] TEXT REFERENCES [entities]([entity_id]),
   [confidence] TEXT,
   [rationale] TEXT,
   [source_id] TEXT REFERENCES [sources]([source_id]),
   [review_status] TEXT,
   [period_id] TEXT REFERENCES [periods]([period_id])
);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_relationships_period_id]
    ON [entity_relationships] ([period_id]);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_relationships_source_id]
    ON [entity_relationships] ([source_id]);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_relationships_object_entity_id]
    ON [entity_relationships] ([object_entity_id]);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_relationships_relationship_type]
    ON [entity_relationships] ([relationship_type]);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_relationships_subject_entity_id]
    ON [entity_relationships] ([subject_entity_id]);