jews in alexandria played a crucial role in the political, economic, cultural and religious life of hellenistic and roman alexandria, with jews comprising about 35% of the city's population during the roman era.   serapis was intended to be, in plutarchs words, "god of all peoples in common, even as osiris is" as he was linked with the afterlife and transformation, serapis became known as a redeemer god and savior who granted believers eternal life.   serapis is a graeco-egyptian god of the ptolemaic period (323-30 bce) of egypt developed by the monarch ptolemy i soter (r. 305-282 bce) as part of his vision to unite his egyptian and greek subjects.    pentateuch was written around 270 bce using greek sources found at the great library of alexandria    > emperor hadrian, who put down the bar kokhba revolt in jerusalem in the 130s and exiled all jews from jerusalem, said that serapis worship and christianity in alexandria were identical and practiced in syncretism, adding that serpais had contributed to judaism and samaritanism as well. > hadrian equated serapis worship with christianity, went on to found his own dying-and-rising mystery cult based on the strange death of his lover antinous while undergoing special mystery rites on the nile, making antinous statue the third most common in antiquity after augustus and hadrian himself. > antinous holding a cross and grapes looking exactly like coptic christian iconography from the 500s or 600s
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