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ASHRA BALL is a Welsh academic whose interest is the ancient Near and Middle East and Central Asia. She was one of the earliest scholars to begin work on the body of recently-unveiled documents from the culture now termed the Goddess People -- the indigenous population inhabiting Canaan and the Fertile Crescent at the time of the Israelite invasion c. 1400 BCE and after. The study of these texts and the culture they reveal have been the focus of her work for the past 30 years.