Other attempts to reconstruct Lucian's theology have started out with Paul of Samosata, whose rejection of the allegorizing tendencies of the Alexandrian School, and especially those of Origen, was transferred to Lucian.
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A cruder kind of drama, the amoebaean verse, or bucolic mime, developed into the only pure stream of genial poetry found in the Alexandrian School, the " Idylls " of Theocritus.
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It follows the Yavanajtaka ( " Saying of the Greek " ) as an example of the transmission of Western astronomical knowledge ( especially the Alexandrian school ) to India during the first centuries of our era.
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Historically in the Alexandrian school of thought ( fashioned on the Gospel of John ), Jesus Christ is the eternal " Logos " who already possesses unity with the Father before the act of Incarnation.
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In general, his homiletical theology displays much characteristic of the Antiochian school ( i . e ., somewhat more literal in interpreting Biblical events ), but he also uses a good deal of the allegorical interpretation more associated with the Alexandrian school.
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The earliest gears in Europe were circa AD 50 by Hero of Alexandria, but they can be traced back to the Greek mechanics of the Alexandrian school in the 3rd century BC and were greatly developed by the Greek polymath Archimedes ( 287 212 BC ).
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According to Harrison, it was Church Father Origen in the third century who perfected a hermeneutical method that was first developed by the Platonists of the Alexandrian school by which the natural world could be persuaded to give up hidden meanings . [ 12 ] This universal hermeneutic was to provide interpretive strategies for dealing with both texts and objects in the physical world.
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The first period extends from about 306 to 30 BC, the time from the foundation of the Ptolemaic dynasty to the conquest by the the destruction of the Alexandria Library sometime before or upon the capture of Alexandria by'Amr ibn al-' As in 641 AD . The clear differences between these two periods explains the variety and vagueness of meaning attaching to the term " Alexandrian School ."
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The Protest ( Antilogia ) against those who advocate a suffering God ( " Theopaschism " ) is written in a clear and vigorous style using various rhetorical devices ( formulae, punch-lines, diatribe, metaphor-e . g ., in chapter 20, reaching a safe harbour after the risk of piracy ) and attempting to expose the absurdity of his Alexandrian school opponents'arguments.
