Alexandria in the Early Twentieth Century
Alexandria in the Early Twentieth Century Alexander the Great founded Alexandria in 331 B.C. The Septuagint translators here translated the Hebrew scriptures into Greek. There were so many people from Alexandria in first-century Jerusalem that they had, at least, one synagogue of their own, probably holding services at least partly in Greek as opposed to the Aramaic of the Judeans. Acts 6:9 , Acts 18:24 , Acts 27:6 , Acts 28:11