Some Historical Context for a 'Mystic Logos' Hidden in the Adyton

As regular readers of this blog know all too well I have an interest in both the Mar Saba letter and the location of the church mentioned in the document - the Martyrium of St. Mark.  I think the two necessarily go together and ultimately provide the context for understanding how and why a 'mystic gospel' was developed in the first place.  It all comes down to the Martyrium being built on top of the 'great synagogue' of the Alexandrian Jewish community (cf. Clement Str. 5.4).  In other words, the Christian community was a continuation or development of the Jewish community located up to the end of the first century in the same geographic location (the Boucolia). 

We all know that the Jews of Alexandria generally spoke Greek.  The Torah in their prayer houses were written in Greek.  But can anyone doubt that in the Holy of Holies where the 'altar' stood (cf. Talmud) that there wasn't a Hebrew Torah?  Of course there was.  Hebrew is the sacred language and Greek wasn't.  I bet that even in the pre-Hasmonaean period in Palestine it was the same situation - i.e. Targums in the meeting houses and the one copy of the sacred Law in the temple(s).  Indeed the Samaritan community preserves the complaint against the Dositheans that they 'added to' the Torah.  The Dositheans were especially numberous in Alexandria ...