By H. S. Versnel
This can be the 1st of a two-volume number of stories in inconsistencies in Greek and Roman faith. Their universal goal is to argue for the ancient relevance of assorted varieties of ambiguity and dissonance. the 1st quantity makes a speciality of the important paradoxes in old henotheism. The time period 'henotheism' -- a latest formation after the stereotyped acclamation: #EIS O QEOS# ("one is the god"), universal to early Christianity and contemporaneous paganism -- denotes the particular devotion to at least one specific god with no denying the life of, or maybe cultic awareness to, different gods. After its major within the twenties and thirties of this century the time period fell into disuse. still, the idea of henotheism represents the most awesome and critical shifts in Graeco-Roman faith and therefore merits clean reconsideration.
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