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Of Hosea 4: "... it is impossible to determine how much of the description may simply be caricature of licentious practices at rural sanctuaries - analogous to the practices associated with convention centres and places of pilgrimage in other times and places."
- Phyllis A. Bird. Prostitution in Ancient Israel, a paper orginally given at a conference at the University of Wisconsin, 2002 :)