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A:The Bible does not give the donkey a name. Bishop John Shelby Spong goes as far as to say that the story, of Jesus riding the donkey into Jerusalem as a crowds waved leafy branches and shouted hosanna, was simply a literary creation, meaning there was no donkey. In Jesus for the NonReligious, he says:

The Jewish eight day celebration of the harvest, known as Sukkoth, and also called the Festival of the Tabernacles or Booths, was probably the most popular holiday among the Jews in the first century. In the observance of Sukkoth, worshippers processed through Jerusalem and in the Temple, waving a bunch of leafy branches. As they waved these branches in that procession, the worshippers recited words from Psalm 118, the psalm normally used at Sukkoth. Among these words were "Save us, we beseech you, O Lord." Save us in Hebrew is hosianna or 'hosanna'. This is typically followed by "Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord. (Psalm 118:25-6)."

He says that the original gospel author (Mark) simply took the facts about the Jewish Sukkoth, which was always celebrated later in the year, and created a story about Jesus at the time of the Jewish Passover. "Hosanna" and the words from the psalm are written in Mark 11:9.

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