Review of Litwa, Early Christianity in Alexandria

BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Early Christianity in Alexandria: from its beginnings to the late second century.

M. David Litwa, Early Christianity in Alexandria: from its beginnings to the late second century. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 350. ISBN 9781009449557.

Review by
Joseph Verheyden, University of Leuven. jos.verheyden@kuleuven.be

... In his most recent book, Litwa takes the reader on an exploratory journey to early Christian Alexandria on the perhaps a bit too optimistic hypothesis that more can be said about the origins and earliest history of Alexandrian Christianity than has often been thought. ...

The book seems also to deal quite a bit with Alexandrian Judaism.

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