The demise and disappearance of religions are processes rarely analysed or theorised in depth in the study of religions. This article engages the discussion of how religious traditions disappear by focusing on religious demise as an active process and suggests that this can also teach us about religious persistence. Using memory and emotion perspectives, I focus on processes of religious change in Judaism in the Persian-Hellenistic era by analysing a case study from the Hebrew Bible that involves an active dismantling of previous religious practices and their replacement with a new programme for religious devotion: the narrative of 2 Kgs 22-23. I argue that the new total devotion programme involves the active erasure of previous religious practices as a key part of the new identity. On the basis of the analyses, I discuss religious changes in Second Temple Judaism and suggest a novel reframing of some of the key changes in terms of memory, media, and emotions.

宗教的灭亡是宗教研究中很少深入分析或理论化的过程。本文通过将宗教灭亡作为一个积极的过程，来讨论宗教传统如何消失的讨论，并建议这也可以教会我们有关宗教持久性的知识。我使用记忆和情感的观点，通过分析希伯来圣经中的一个案例研究来关注波斯希腊文化时代犹太教的宗教变化过程，该案例研究积极消除了以前的宗教习俗，并用新的宗教奉献计划替代了这些宗教习俗： 2 Kgs 22-23的叙述。我认为，新的完全奉献计划涉及积极消除以前的宗教习俗，这是新身份的关键部分。根据分析，