Alexandria

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. In order 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 present 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.

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Born 1996; studies Protestant Theology in Bern and works as a research assistant at the Institute for New Testament Studies at the University of Bern. Geboren 1977; Studium der Ev. Theologie in Tübingen, Glasgow und Pasadena; 2006 Promotion; 2010-16 Oberassistent in Zürich; 2020 Habilitation; seit 2016 Ausserordentlicher Professor für Neues Testament am Institut für Neues Testament der Universität Bern. Born 1981; studied Protestant Theology in Heidelberg, Oxford and Tübingen; 2011-16 research assistant in Tübingen; 2017 PhD; since 2017 project assistant at the Institute for New Testament Studies in Bern and since 2018 senior assistant for New Testament Studies at the Theological Seminary of the University of Zurich. Born 1965; studied Catholic Theology and English in Regensburg and Sheffield; 1996-99 Assistant Professor in Regensburg; since 1999 Director of Studies at a Bavarian grammar school; 2000 PhD; since 2013 Teaching Assignments and Habilitation Project in Early Christianity at the Theological Seminary of the University of Zurich; since 2014 Research Fellow at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. Geboren 1962; 1996 Promotion; 1998 Habilitation; seit 2010 Professor für Neues Testament an der Universität Zürich.