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Abstract. This contribution offers a synthesis of a debate about the book Beyond Conflicts. Cultural and Religious Cohabitations in Alexandria and Egypt between the 1st and the 6th Century CE, edited by L. Arcari in 2017, which took place in Naples, University “Federico II”, on November 20, 2018. In the main text, written by Lorenzo Perrone, the fubdamental topics of the book are discussed: the new hermeneutical paradigms of the Alexandrian multiculturalism, Jewish culture and Greek culture, the meaning of the Alexandrian school, Gnosticism and the fund of Nag Hammadi. In the Appendix three areas are listed by Alberto Camplani in which promising lines of research are developping: the birth of Coptic written language and its public role, Coptic magic, and Manichaean presence in Egypt.