Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Introduction: An Inquiry into the Origin, Development and Meaning of Human Life -- A Personal Account of the Scholarship of Henk Versnel -- Frits G. Naerebout and Kim Beerden -- Bibliography of H.S. Versnel -- Part 1: Inconsistencies and Other Complexities -- 1 Cognitive Science of Religion and the Work of Henk Versnel -- Ancient and Modern Scholars on Inconsistencies, from Aristotle to Versnel -- Jennifer Larson -- 2 “One Must Not Ask Questions Such as These” -- Casper C. de Jonge -- 3 Divine Metonymy: Theology and Rhetoric -- Tim Whitmarsh -- Part 2 : Myth and Ritual -- 4 The History of Myth and Ritual -- Robert A. Segal -- 5 Transitions, Reversals, Inconsistencies -- H.S. Versnel on Myth and Ritual -- Michael D. Konaris -- Part 3 : Magic, Prayers for Justice, and Emotion -- 6 The Typical and the Outlier in Ancient Greek Cursing -- Prayers for Justice, Erotic Curses and other Important Categories -- Chris A. Faraone -- 7 Ancient Magic in a New Key -- Refining an Exotic Discipline in the History of Religions -- David Frankfurter -- 8 My God! Religion as Emotional Experience in the Hellenistic World and the Roman East -- Angelos Chaniotis -- Part 4 : Saving Death -- 9 Jesus Christus als neue Alkestis und neuer Kodros -- Das Sterben „für“ andere Menschen bei Paulus und im paganen Kontext -- Christina Eschner -- Part 5 : Henotheism -- 10 Henotheism, a ‘Consistent’ Category of Polytheism -- Nicole Belayche -- Epilogue -- 11 Foreword to an Afterword -- Henk S. Versnel -- 12 Response -- Henk S. Versnel -- Bibliography -- Index.

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