Making Tradition of an Ass. Zênôn the Alexandrian, a White Donkey, and Conversion to Hellenism

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" Making Tradition of an Ass. Zênôn the Alexandrian, a White Donkey, and Conversion to Hellenism "
Tennyson Jacob Wellman

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1082797
Doc. No	:	LA126426
Call No	:	‭10.1163/157430108X376564‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Tennyson Jacob Wellman
Title & Author	:	Making Tradition of an Ass. Zênôn the Alexandrian, a White Donkey, and Conversion to Hellenism [Article]\ Tennyson Jacob Wellman
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and Theology
Date	:	2008
Volume/ Issue Number	:	15/3-4
Page No	:	321–339
Abstract	:	Modern discussions of religious change in the ancient Mediterranean have frequently focused on the steady increase in Christian authority and numbers, and the related decrease in the number of 'pagans.' This is frequently paired with a supercessionist logic that suggests Christianity is a new thing in contrast to the older, static, Jewish and pagan cultures. Looking at an invented conversion ritual (one moving from Judaism to Hellenism), we can begin to question the standard ideas of tradition and innovation in Late Antique religious cultures, and to see the ways that some Jews and Hellenes used Christian discourses to assert their own independence and agency. Modern discussions of religious change in the ancient Mediterranean have frequently focused on the steady increase in Christian authority and numbers, and the related decrease in the number of 'pagans.' This is frequently paired with a supercessionist logic that suggests Christianity is a new thing in contrast to the older, static, Jewish and pagan cultures. Looking at an invented conversion ritual (one moving from Judaism to Hellenism), we can begin to question the standard ideas of tradition and innovation in Late Antique religious cultures, and to see the ways that some Jews and Hellenes used Christian discourses to assert their own independence and agency.
Descriptor	:	CONVERSION
Descriptor	:	DONKEY
Descriptor	:	IMPERIAL REGULATION
Descriptor	:	PLATONIST
Descriptor	:	RESISTANCE
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/157430108X376564‬