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• Cyrene

  Cyrene was a Greek city on the northeastern coast of present-day Libya in North Africa. In the New Testament it appears as the hometown of Simon, who carried the cross of Jesus, and as the place of origin of early Christian evangelists who preached the gospel to Gentiles in Antioch.

• Rufus

  Rufus appears in the Gospel of Mark as a son of Simon of Cyrene, the man who carried the cross of Jesus. Scholars differ on whether he is the same Rufus whom Paul greets in Romans 16.

• Hymenaeus

  Hymenaeus was a figure in the early church whose name appears in 1 Timothy and 2 Timothy. Paul mentions him as one who "made shipwreck" concerning the faith and taught "that the resurrection is past already."

• Colonialism and Missions

  Colonialism and missions refers to the historical relationship in which European overseas expansion and Christian missionary work became intertwined from the fifteenth century onward. The term also covers the criticism and reassessment surrounding that relationship.

• Alexandria

  Alexandria is a port city on the Mediterranean coast of northern Egypt. It appears four times in the Bible, all in the Book of Acts. It was the hometown of Apollos and, according to tradition, the place where the Septuagint was translated.

• Codex Alexandrinus

  Codex Alexandrinus is a Greek manuscript of the Bible written around the fifth century, containing both the Old Testament (in the Septuagint) and the New Testament. Along with Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus, it ranks among the foremost ancient manuscripts of the Bible.

• Clement of Alexandria

  Clement of Alexandria (c. 150–c. 215) was an early church father and theologian active in Alexandria. He is regarded as a leading figure of the Alexandrian school, which sought to connect Greek philosophy with the Christian faith.

• Cyril of Alexandria

  Cyril of Alexandria (c. 376–444) was a fifth-century bishop of Alexandria and Church Father who opposed Nestorius at the Council of Ephesus in 431 and championed a Christology emphasizing the one person of Christ.

• Troas

  Troas was a port city on the Aegean coast of northwestern Asia Minor. The Book of Acts records it as the place where Paul saw the vision of the man of Macedonia and where Eutychus was restored to life.

• Apollos

  Apollos was a first-century Christian teacher who appears in the Acts of the Apostles and the Pauline Epistles of the New Testament. A Jew from Alexandria, he was eloquent and well versed in the Scriptures, and he ministered in Ephesus and Corinth.

• Basilides

  Basilides was a Christian Gnostic teacher who taught in Alexandria, Egypt, in the first half of the second century. The Church Fathers treated him as a leading representative of heresy, and they attribute to him the claim that Simon of Cyrene was crucified in place of Jesus.

• Origen

  Origen (c. 185 – c. 253) was an early church theologian and biblical interpreter from Alexandria. He produced the Hexapla, a parallel edition of the Old Testament, and On First Principles, a systematic theological work, but some of his teachings were condemned after his death.

• Coptic Orthodox Church

  The Coptic Orthodox Church is a church of the Oriental Orthodox family centered in Egypt. It regards Mark the Evangelist as its founder and is known for not accepting the decisions of the Council of Chalcedon in 451.

• Therapeutae

  The Therapeutae were a Jewish ascetic and contemplative community that the first-century Jewish philosopher Philo described as living near Alexandria, Egypt. Because the fourth-century church historian Eusebius presented them as Christians, they were long discussed in connection with the origins of the monastic tradition.

• Valentinus

  Valentinus (c. 100 – c. 160) was a Christian teacher active in Rome in the second century. He is known as the founder of the Valentinians, one of the largest movements within early Christian Gnosticism.

• Arianism

  Arianism is the teaching advanced by Arius of Alexandria in the fourth century. It regards Christ the Son not as God of the same essence as the Father but as the first and highest creature made by God. It was condemned at the Council of Nicaea in 325.

• Isidore (Gnostic)

  Isidore was a second-century Gnostic teacher active in Alexandria, Egypt, and the son and disciple of Basilides. His writings survive only in passages quoted by Church Fathers such as Clement of Alexandria.

• Septuagint

  The Septuagint is a translation of the Hebrew Old Testament into ancient Greek, produced in Alexandria, Egypt, beginning around the third century BC. New Testament writers frequently followed it when quoting the Old Testament, and the early church received and used it as its Old Testament.

• Anthony of Egypt

  Anthony of Egypt (c. 251–356) was an early church hermit who lived a solitary monastic life in the Egyptian desert. He is often called the "Father of Monasticism."

• Epistle of Barnabas

  The Epistle of Barnabas is an early Christian writing composed in Greek between the late first and early second centuries. It interprets the laws and institutions of the Old Testament as symbols pointing to Christ and was not included in the New Testament canon.