I know there's enough Xian-relevant material to put this on the Xian Branch, but I'm only interested in the Jewish/Hermetic elements of this Century. Alternate timelines welcome! My own reconstructed/hypothetical First Century AD Alexandria-relevant timeline (best effort context orientation, etc.) would go smthg like, all dates approximate:
0 AD: numerous heterodox/syncretistic Judaic folk cults well-established in Alexandria Egypt; (Proto-)Gnostic speculations among elite intellectual/secular Alexandrian cosmopolitan Jews, for several generations at least.
5 AD: Anthropos Doctrine first appears in radical Jewish teachings of Alexandria; abstraction/universalizing of 'Son of Man' (Cainite?) cult.
13 AD: 'Pagan Graeco-Egyptian' Poimandres Myth revised & disseminated by Jewish allegorist scribes/Therapeuts - SCANDAL in Alexandria.
20 AD: Apollos born in Alexandria.
25 AD: Anthropos Doctrine well-established in certain Alexandrian Jewish synagogues; Philo's writings try to co-opt the Anthropos movement.
30 AD: Cerinthus born, 'traditional' Alexandrian Jewish.
35 AD: Apollos (youth) raised in Melchizedekian synagogue.
38 AD: Pogrom in Alexandria; Therapeut writers' colony (c.25 BC-35 AD) disappears; Apollos takes flight to ...Asia Minor?
40 AD: Apollos taught Christos Doctrine by foreign missionary of (Babylonian?) Christos (NOT JESUS!) cult
45 AD: Apollos returns to Alexandria, teaches Christos (NOT JESUS) Doctrine to Melchizedekian-Logos cult
48 AD: Apollos quits Alexandria for proselytizing Christos Doctr. in (esp. Melchizedekian) Diaspora communities of Asia Minor.
49 AD: St. Mark supposedly arrives in Alexandria _TOO EARLY_ more like early 60s AD.
52 AD: Apollos meets Aquila and Priscilla in Asia Minor; joins Jesus crew, and helps merge new Pauline Jesus-Christos teaching.
54 AD: Disciple of Apollos carries Jesus-Christos teaching back to Alexandria, OR he himself visited.
58 AD: Apollos writes 'Epistle to Hebrews' heterodox Congregation, Melchizedekian backsliders, reminding about Jesus-Christos.
65 AD: Basilides born.
68 AD: Palestine Zealot Unrest fuels Alexandrian Jews' apostasy and intensifying Judeo-Gnostic tendency.
68 AD: St. Mark martyred in Alexandria; Gospel recorded c.60-70 AD.
70 AD: Melchizedekianism (Alexandrian cult network, in Diaspora) and other Alexandrian cults anathematized by Palestinian rabbis.
73 AD: Sicarii sow terror in Alexandrian Jewish community; division drives ever more Jews into alternate 'open' heterodox cults (esp. Gnostic).
75 AD: Cerinthus (fmr, rabbi?) preaching Gnostic Xian doctrines in Asia Minor.
75 AD: Theudas preaching Pauline-type Xianity in Alexandria.
80 AD: Basilides (youth) studying Gnostic Xianity in Alexandria?
Alexandria-Relevant 1st C AD Timeline (subject-to-change)
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Re: Alexandria-Relevant 1st C AD Timeline (subject-to-change)
I like the ideas and timeline, but aren't you taking Acts at facevalue?
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I have never considered 'Acts.' Should I?perseusomega9 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 15, 2021 6:48 am I like the ideas and timeline, but aren't you taking Acts at facevalue?
Forgive me (I know I'm on a Bible forum), but my own interest here is (mostly) 'Jewish' and 200 BC-150 AD: Alexandrian Judaism, Judeo-Egyptian culture, Jewish Gnosticism (pre-115 AD), the Jewish Hermetica.
Obviously, I will have to consider relevant Biblical material (because the timeframe overlaps, related underlying themes, etc.) but tbh I have barely looked at the NT. I'm still sorting the 'other stuff.'
Recommendations, welcome.
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Re: Alexandria-Relevant 1st C AD Timeline
IIUC Perseus' point is that your timeline for Apollos is based on an interpretation of Acts.billd89 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 15, 2021 2:59 pmI have never considered 'Acts.' Should I?perseusomega9 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 15, 2021 6:48 am I like the ideas and timeline, but aren't you taking Acts at facevalue?
Forgive me (I know I'm on a Bible forum), but my own interest here is (mostly) 'Jewish' and 200 BC-150 AD: Alexandrian Judaism, Judeo-Egyptian culture, Jewish Gnosticism (pre-115 AD), the Jewish Hermetica.
Obviously, I will have to consider relevant Biblical material (because the timeframe overlaps, related underlying themes, etc.) but tbh I have barely looked at the NT. I'm still sorting the 'other stuff.'
Recommendations, welcome.
Andrew Criddle
Re: Alexandria-Relevant 1st C AD Timeline
Yes. It is. (The scholarship around that, supposing Apollos was a real person, etc. I have taken at face value.)
We start with what we've got.
We start with what we've got.