Greco-Roman Egypt

The province where a Greek-speaking administration, an ancient temple priesthood, a very large Jewish community and the new Christians all lived in the same cities and read each other's books.

The bench's shared water. Three doors of this annex root here within two centuries — ⁂ the Hermetica, ✧ the Gnostics, ☉ Neoplatonism — and Philo shows the Jewish side of the same fusion was already underway. The resemblances need no secret channel; they need a map.