Unknown God

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title: Unknown God
text: The Unknown God or Agnostos Theos is a theory by Eduard Norden first published in 1913 that proposes, based on the Christian Apostle Paul's Areopagus speech in Acts 17:23, that in addition to the twelve main gods and the innumerable lesser deities, ancient Greeks worshipped a deity they called "Agnostos Theos"; that is: "Unknown God", which Norden called "Un-Greek". In Athens, there was a temple specifically dedicated to that god and very often Athenians would swear "in the name of the Unknown G
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description: Theory by Eduard Norden
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unknown_God
date created: 2002-02-27T04:46:29Z
date modified: 2024-09-03T00:05:31Z
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