The first segment comes from the verb αλεξω (alexo), meaning to ward or keep off, turn away or aside (Liddell and Scott — An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon). Put this Hebrew name on your site or blog! But you can write it אלקסנדרה Caird, Evolution of Theology in the Greek Philosophers (1904); Pfleiderer, Philosophy and Development of Religion (1894); Schaff, History of Christian Church (1884-1910); Zogheb, Etudes sur l'ancienne Alexandrie (1909). 333). Please enter your email address associated with your Salem All-Pass account, then click Continue. In accordance with this, Europeans, Asiatics and Africans found in Alexandria a common citizenship. A colossal mole joined the island to the main land and made a double harbor, the best in all Egypt. Biblical context: The Biblical baby name Alexander is Greek in origin and it's meaning is defender of men or brave. I had 30,000 Jewish soldiers, in his army, whose barracks have only recently been discovered. The Jews were at first ruled by a Hebrew ethnarch. For several centuries after the school disbanded its tenets were combated by the "school of Antioch," but by the 8th century the Alexandrian theology was accepted by the whole Christian world, east and west. In Alexander's honor, the high priest ordered that all Jewish males born in the city for a year were to be … All famous books brought into Egypt were sent to the library to be copied. See our article on the name Since Alexander the Great appeared on the world stage after the youngest book of the Old Testament was written, this name does not occur in the Daniel describes a vision in which he sees a two-horned ram being trampled by a unicorn he-goat. Then for 1,000 years the Egyptian church remained without perceptible influence on culture or theology. This Greek Bible not only opened for the first time the "Divine Oracles" to the Gentiles and thus gave to the Old … Caird). Literature and its history, philology and criticism became sciences" (Alexandria Weber). Indeed in several cities, under the Ptolemies, who accepted this policy, foreigners were even given superiority to natives. During the 4th century, ten councils were held in Alexandria, it being theological and ecclesiastical center of Christendom. Serapis (Osiris-Apis) was the best beloved of all the native deities.
Neither the phraseology nor conceptions of the Fourth Gospel could have been grasped in a world which Alexandria had not taught.
No library in the world except the prophetic library in Jerusalem was ever as valuable as the two Alexandrian libraries. It was in accordance with the custom of that era. Arius was a catechist in this institution, and Athanasius, the "father of orthodoxy" and "theological center of the Nicene age" (Schaff), though not officially connected with the catechetical school was greatly affected by it, having been bred and trained in Alexandria.
But the epochal importance of Alexandria is found in the teaching which prepared the Hebrew people for the reception of a gospel for the whole world, which was soon to be preached by Hebrews from Hellenized Galilee. Some sixty letters of the 4th century written to a Christian cavalry officer in the Egyptian army are also preserved, while papyri and ostraca from circa 600 AD show that at this time no deacon could be ordained without having first learned by heart as much as an entire Gospel or 25 Psalms and two epistles of Paul, while a letter from a bishop of this period is filled with Scripture, as he anathematizes the "oppressor of the poor," who is likened unto him who spat in the face of our Lord on the cross and smote Him on the head (Adolph Deissmann, Light from the Ancient East, etc., 1910). It may be claimed that in literature no special originality was displayed though the earliest "love storms" and pastoral poetry date from this period (Mahaffy); yet the literature of the Augustan Age cannot be understood "without due appreciation of the character of the Alexandrian school" (EB, 11th ed.
Here for the first time is seen a school of science and literature, adequately endowed and offering large facilities for definite original research. Meaning: Protector of Man. The name Alexander occurs 6 times in the New Testament — Note that the last two Alexanders may also be covert reflections on the goings on in the library of Alexandria. From this city Christianity reached all Egypt and entered Nubia, Ethiopia and Abyssinia. Each district had a practically independent political government. It was obtained in Alexandria and sent as a present to the king of England (1628) by Cyrellus Lucaris, the Patriarch of Constantinople. The famous library which at different eras was reported as possessing from 400,000 to 900,000 books and rolls--the rolls being as precious as the books--was a magnificent edifice connected by marble colonnades with the Museum, the "Temple of the Muses." It was for a long period the greatest of existing cities, for both Nineveh and Babylon had been destroyed, and Rome had not yet risen to greatness. Before Alexander died (323 BC) the future of the city as the commercial metropolis of the world was assured and here the golden casket of the conqueror was placed in a fitting mausoleum.
According to all tradition, Mark the evangelist, carried the gospel to Alexandria, and his body rested here until removed to Venice, 828 AD. It is Egyptian even in trifles. From the first there was a mystical and Docetic tendency visible, while its views of inspiration and methods of interpretation, including its constant assumption of a secret doctrine for the qualified initiate, came legitimately from Neo-Platonism. Plato was numbered among the prophets. In it the profoundest Aryan speculations were blended with the sublimest Semitic concepts. The angel The name Alexander has been popular since Alexander the Great conquered the entire known world and converted his subjects to the Aristotelian outlook on life.