theonymy

Noun

theonymy (uncountable)

1. The names given to gods, collectively.
   • The widespread occurrence of both roots in the theonymy of the Indo-European world, their prevalent merger into one divine name, and the striking resemblance in mythological functions tied to this onomastics enable us to look for the same ancestry of all historically attested variants.1985, Stephen Rudy (ed), Roman Jakobson: Selected Writings, →ISBN, page 45
   • Were that the case, it would only strengthen my position: for Deuteronomy, at the time of its composition, like the Qumran Temple Scroll, would then constitute a divine pseudepigraph, with theonymy the ultimate trope of authority.2002, Bernard M. Levinson, Deuteronomy and the Hermeneutics of Legal Innovation, →ISBN, page 34