Onolatry
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onolatry-180-7638025
title:
Onolatry
text:
Onolatry is the supposed worship of the donkey. In Imperial Rome, the charge of onolatry was used to taunt the Jews and Jewish Christians. The association of Jews with donkeys was a common feature of Hellenic as well as Latin ethnographic and historical writings, and included accusations of worshipping a golden donkey head and even sacrificing foreigners to it at intervals. A famous example of this is the Alexamenos graffito. The charge was likely first used against Jews in Egypt, where donkeys
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Ancient worship of donkeys
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onolatry
date created:
2008-09-01T10:33:28Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T08:53:07Z
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13
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