The West framed its cultural superiority as Christ rising above his Jewish origins.

Evidence

The implicational hierarchy is the unchanging formal underpinning of orientalist art with biblical subjects. It expresses a lasting, indeed defining, feature of Christian thought: Old Testament Judaism was a preparation for Christianity, and the highest degree of spiritual fulfillment is in Christ. The West has understood itself as risen from, and above, its oriental roots in the same manner as Christ rose above his Jewish ones. This is why, in Christian art, Christ does not wear a turban. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 227

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the Victorian gendering of silence/domesticity and the ‘risen above its roots’ framing found in civilizational narratives generally.
• ADDENDUM: Could extend the immodesty/moral-panic essay: the visual policing of Jesus’s dress is another case of a cultural elite enforcing identity markers through imagery.