Healings or Exorcisms? Evil Spirits as Impersonal Powers in the Gospels
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عنوان ژورنال: Biblica et Patristica Thoruniensia
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1689-5150
DOI: 10.12775/bpth.2014.023