The article deals with the cuneiform sources of o.M. Freudenberg’s hypothesis of Jesus as young donkey, who was the fertilizer and the savior of Jerusalem and its inhabitants. It was found that the young donkey in the Sumerian and Akkadian literature associated with the fertility god Dumuzi (Semitic Tammuz); donkey was seen as a symbol of male power and could be used as a holy sacrifice for the establishment of a peace treaty; deified Sumerian kings also were called “young donkey”. As the authors of the Gospels spoke Semitic languages, it is necessary to recognize a significant fact that in the Akkadian texts originating from the cities of Syria and Palestine, homonymy or similar words that marked the young man, the groom, the month of the sacred marriage and the young donkey could be established. Dictionaries also reflect the semantic shift “to ride > to copulate”.