Alexandria : hub of the Hellenistic world / edited by Benjamin Schliesser, Jan Rüggemeier, Thomas J. Kraus, and Jörg Frey ; with the assistance of Daniel Herrmann.

• Introduction. Alexandria : hub of the Hellenistic world / Jan Rüggemieier -- I. The City. "The largest and most important" part of Egypt : Alexandria according to Strabo / Gregory E. Sterling -- y Whose "Glory of Alexandria"? : monuments, identities, and the eye of the beholder / Balbina Bäbler -- Alexandria : what does the so-called Letter of Aristeas tell us about Alexandria? / Barbara Schmitz -- Religious violence and the Library of Alexandria / Christina Harker -- Was Demetrius of Phalerum the founder of the Alexandrian LIbrary? / Maria Sokolskaya -- II. Egyptian and Hellenistic Identities. Alexandria in the new outline of philosophy in the Roman Imperial Period and in Late Antiquity / Christoph Riedweg -- Bottom up or top down : who initiated the building of Temples for Augustus in Alexandria and Upper Egypt / Stefan Pfeiffer -- The shifting definition of Greek identity in Alexandria through the transition from Ptolemaic to Roman rule / Sylvie Honigman -- Cultural rivalry in Alexandria : the Egyptians Apion and Chaeremon / Beatrice Wyss -- When Syrian politics arrived in Egypt: 2nd century BCE Egyptian Yahwism and the Vorlage of the LXX / Sandra Gambetti -- The Apocalypse of Zephaniah and the Tombs of the Egyptian Chora : an archeological contribution to B. J. Diebner's opinion about the relation between Clement of Alexandria and the Coptic traditon of the Apocalypse of Zephaniah / Michael Sommer -- III. Jewish Alexandria. The Letter of Aristeas and the place of the Septuagint of Alexandrian Judaism / Benjamin Wright -- The first pogrom? " religious violence in Alexandria in 38 CE? / Jan N. Bremmer -- How much Hebrew in Jewish Alexandria? / René Bloch -- From Alexandria to Caesarea and beyond : the transmission of the fragments of the Hellenistic Jewish authors / Justin P. Jeffcoat Schedtler -- Philo's Quastiones in Genesin and Paul's / John Granger Cook -- IV. From the New Testament to early Christianities. Apollos of Alexandria : portrait of an unknown / Samuel Vollenweider -- Locating New Testament writings in Alexandria : on method and the aporias of scholarship / Jörg Frey -- Jewish beginnings : earliest Christianity in Alexandria / Benjamin Schliesser -- The interpretation of Pauline understandings of resurrection within the Treatise on the Resurrection (NHC I 4) / Enno Edzard Popkes -- The quest for Pantaenus : Paul Collomp, Wilhelm Bousset, and Johannes Munck on an Alexandrian enigma / Wolfgang Grünstäudl -- Alexandria, city of knowledge : Clement on "statues" in his Protrepticus (chapter 4) / Thomas J. Kraus -- Origen and the "heterodox" : the prologue of the Commentary on John within the Christian Alexandrian context / Anna van den Kerchove -- "Monotheistic" discourses in pseudo-Justin's De monarchia : the "uniqueness" of God and the Alexandrian hegemony / Luca Arcari -- The martyrdom of Mark in Late Antique Alexandria / Tobias Nicklas.

• Alexandria was one of the main hubs of the Hellenistic world and a cultural and religious "kaleidoscope." Merchants and migrants, scientists and scholars, philosophers, and religious innovators from all over the world and from all social backgrounds came to this ancient metropolis and exchanged their goods, views, and dreams. Accordingly, Alexandria became a place where Hellenistic, Egyptian, Jewish, and early Christian identities all emerged, coexisted, influenced, and rivaled each other. Inorder to meet the diversity of Alexandria's urban life and to do justice to the variety of literary and non-literary documents that bear witness to this, the volume examines the processes of identity formation from a range of different academic perspectives. Thus, the prest volume gathers together twenty-six contributions from the realm of archaeology, ancient history, classical philology, religious studies, philosophy, the Old Testament, narratology, Jewish studies, papyrology, and the New Testament. -- 

Ämnesord

Religion  (sao)

Judendom  (sao)

Fornkyrkan  (sao)

Judaism  (LCSH)

Religion  (LCSH)

Egypten  -- Alexandria (sao)

Alexandria (Egypt)  -- Antiquities -- Congresses. (LCSH)

Alexandria (Egypt)  -- Civilization -- Congresses. (LCSH)

Alexandria (Egypt)  -- Religion -- Congresses. (LCSH)

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Konferenser  (saogf)

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200.932 (DDC)

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