Of Crowns, Pilgrims, and Non-Asinine Mules

John O’Malley, S.J.’s emphasis on rhetoric challenges students to reconsider not only the significance of history in relation St. Ignatius’ texts, but also importance their own discourses. In this essay, I focus one specific event Acts, an replete with rhetorical, textual, biblical (both New Testament and Tanakh, Hebrew scriptures), historical considerations, which, surprisingly, does appear as a major voluminous books: Ignatius mule, encountering “the Moor” (un moro). outline method guiding through that emphasizes important intertextual resonances beyond Tanakh Testament, Talmud, paintings, even Greek Western literary theoretical history. This strategy invites bring interdisciplinary knowledge reading passage, ask how ostensibly small scene life can inspire us craft clear understandings mules throughout different religious traditions, engage O’Malley’s rhetorical analysis, ways encourage them go explicit expositions O’Malley address unique interests histories from range Jesuit pedagogical approaches.