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This book presents the first in-depth analysis of Mesopotamian healing goddesses and their relationship to asûs, “healers”. Through this, Sibbing-Plantholt
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A systematic study of how royal illnesses in the Hebrew Bible are evaluated and integrated in literary and historiographical contexts.