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Plan of Alexandria c. 30 BC. The history of Alexandria dates back to the city's founding, by Alexander the Great, in 331 BC. [1] Yet, before that, there were some big port cities just east of Alexandria, at the western edge of what is now Abu Qir Bay.
A central pillar of the Bible's historical authority was the tradition that it had been composed by the principal actors or eyewitnesses to the events described—the Pentateuch was the work of Moses, the Book of Joshua was by Joshua, and so on.
Alexandria (/ ˌ æ l ɪ ɡ ˈ z æ n d r i ə,-ˈ z ɑː n-/ AL-ig-ZA(H)N-dree-ə; [4] Arabic: الإسكندرية; [a] Ancient Greek: Ἀλεξάνδρεια, [b] Coptic: Ⲣⲁⲕⲟϯ, romanized: Rakoti or Ⲁⲗⲉⲝⲁⲛⲇⲣⲓⲁ) is the second largest city in Egypt and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast.
Origen of Alexandria [a] (c. 185 – c. 253), [4] also known as Origen Adamantius, [b] was an early Christian scholar, [7] ascetic, [8] and theologian who was born and spent the first half of his career in Alexandria.
In textual criticism of the New Testament, the Alexandrian text-type is one of the main text types.It is the text type favored by the majority of modern textual critics and it is the basis for most modern (after 1900) Bible translations.
The Codex Alexandrinus (London, British Library, Royal MS 1.D. V-VIII) is a manuscript of the Greek Bible, [n 1] written on parchment.It is designated by the siglum A or 02 in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts, and δ 4 in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts. [1]
The emperor Claudius (ruled 41–54 AD) is recorded to have built an addition onto the Library, [93] but it seems that the Library of Alexandria's general fortunes followed those of the city of Alexandria itself. [94] After Alexandria came under Roman rule, the city's status and, consequently that of its famous Library, gradually diminished. [94]
Cyril of Alexandria became noted in Church history because of his spirited fight for the title "Theotokos [53]" during the First Council of Ephesus (431), establishing the ecclesiastically settled basis for all subsequent mariological developments. [54]