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To: HypatiaTaught

According to Wiki, it wasn’t Christians who destroyed the library.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria


10 posted on 11/10/2023 5:25:08 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: bk1000

From your source...

The daughter library in the Serapeum may have survived after the main Library’s destruction. The Serapeum was vandalized and demolished in 391 AD under a decree issued by Bishop.

Also during the Christian season of Lent in March 415, a mob of Christians under the leadership of a lector named Peter, raided Hypatia’s carriage as she was travelling home.[26][27][28] They dragged her into a building known as the Kaisarion, a former pagan temple and center of the Roman imperial cult in Alexandria that had been converted into a Christian church.[29][26][28] There, the mob stripped Hypatia naked and murdered her using ostraka,[26][30][31][32] which can either be translated as “roof tiles” or “oyster shells”.[26][33] Later historian John of Nikiû also tells a similar story.[34] Even later historian Byzantinist Fr. Adrian Fortescue, says that the mob of Christian Parabalanies and Peter, cruelly tore her to pieces on the steps of a church. Damascius adds that they also cut out her eyeballs.[35] They tore her body into pieces and dragged her limbs through the town to a place called Cinarion, where they set them on fire.

Islam indeed learned much from early Christians.


15 posted on 11/10/2023 5:56:57 PM PST by HypatiaTaught ( Born Free, Live Free, Die Free)
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