Alexandria

Alexandria, founded by Alexander the Great on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt in 332 BC, became one of the most important cities of the ancient world and a principal center of Jewish diaspora life. The city's large Jewish population produced the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures, beginning in the third century BC. In the New Testament, Alexandria appears most prominently in the person of Apollos, described as an Alexandrian by birth, mighty in the scriptures (Acts 18:24), who became a significant early Christian teacher.

The Alexandrian synagogue in Jerusalem was among those opposing Stephen (Acts 6:9). Ships from Alexandria are mentioned in Paul's voyage to Rome (Acts 27:6; 28:11). The city later became a formative center of early Christian theology, associated with figures such as Clement and Origen.