³¹Unlike the actual proselytes (Heb. Gerim Tzadikim, ‘proselytes of righteousness’), such uncircumcised converts were called ‘proselytes of the gate’.^[42] Flavius Josephus tells how a certain Ananias tried to persuaded a neophyte that he “might worship God without being circumcised” and that such kind of worship, in his opinion, “was of a superior nature to circumcision.“^[43]