Greek, served as literary matrix for the writing of the New Testament. Once it was couched in written form, the gospel found an access to universal culture. One of the highly developed elements of the Alexandrian legacy to this universal culture was the exegesis of the classic texts held in veneration in the ancient world. To speak of Alexandrian exegesis immediately evokes the term allegorism, and rightly so, since the foundation of its library, the learned contribution of Alexandria to classical