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grbs-16964	Beneker, Jeffrey	“Your God will be my God”: How John Zonaras Rewrote Plutarch’s Alexander	2024	29	.pdf	application/pdf	10644	367	52	Recension β of the Alexander Romance, which probably dates to the fifth century, reflects its Christian context by introducing changes to the story that de-emphasize Alexander’s paganism.33 In a summary of how the author of Recension β accomplished these changes, Christine Sempéré points to the rationalization of the story of Alexander’s birth, an aversion to comparing him to a god, and the omission of accounts of pagan sacrifice.34 Zonaras followed the same plan in his transformation of Plutarch.35 His omission of pagan sacrifice, to take the last point first, can be documented succinctly. The lesson of Origen’s version is that Alexander honored the Jews rather than harming them, even though they would not forsake Darius, and this demonstrates their special status.15 The rationale, as in Josephus, is that Alexander recog- nized the high priest from his dream and understood that he would conquer the Persian empire.	cache/grbs-16964.pdf	txt/grbs-16964.txt