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Dreams, visions, imaginations : Jewish, Christian and gnostic views of the world to come
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ISSN: 01716441 ISBN: 9783110713527 3110713527 9783110714777 9783110714746 3110714744 Year: 2021 Volume: 247 Publisher: Berlin: de Gruyter,

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The contributions in this volume are focused on the historical origins, religious provenance, and social function of ancient Jewish and Christian apocalyptic literature, including so-called ‘Gnostic’ writings. Although it is disputed whether there was a genre of ‘apocalyptic literature,’ it is obvious that numerous texts from ancient Judaism, early Christianity, and other religious milieus share a specific view of history and the world to come. Many of these writings are presented in form of a heavenly (divine) revelation, mediated through an otherworldly figure (like an angel) to an elected human being who discloses this revelation to his recipients in written form. In different strands of early Judaism, ancient Christianity as well as in Gnosticism, Manichaeism, and Islam, apocalyptic writings played an important role from early on and were produced also in later centuries. One of the most characteristic features of these texts is their specific interpretation of history, based on the knowledge about the upper, divine realm and the world to come.


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Thecla : Paul's disciple and saint in the East and West
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ISBN: 9789042932975 904293297X Year: 2017 Volume: 12 Publisher: Leuven: Peeters,

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This book is a collection of studies about the fascinating figure of Thecla and the development of her cult in East and West. The volume starts with a series of four studies that trace her cult and its literary manifestations from late Antiquity to Byzantine times. We follow her cult from Asia Minor, through Syria, to Turfan in modern Western China, although the autonomy and uniqueness of Thecla was often suppressed in these new localities. From the East we move to the West where her figure appears in Latin texts and a previously unpublished Arabic version of the 'Acts of Paul and Thecla'. Subsequently, three chapters analyse representations of Thecla in Turkish Ayatekla (ancient Seleucia), in the grotto of St Paul in Ephesus and in Coptic iconography. From the East we then move back to the West, particularly to Spain. Thecla's cult was brought from Asia Minor via Armenia to Tarragona, where it remains alive today. The last two chapters look at the historiographical trajectories of the 'Acts of Paul and Thecla' and the testimonies of the Christian martyrs, respectively. As has become customary, the volume concludes with an extensive bibliography and detailed index--

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Christian women saints --- Women in Christianity --- 229*42 --- 229*42 Apocriefe handelingen der apostelen van Andreas, Barnabas, Philippus, Jacobus, Johannes, Matthaeus, Paulus, Petrus, Pilatus, Thomas, Paulus en Thecla, Petrus en Paulus --- Apocriefe handelingen der apostelen van Andreas, Barnabas, Philippus, Jacobus, Johannes, Matthaeus, Paulus, Petrus, Pilatus, Thomas, Paulus en Thecla, Petrus en Paulus --- Christian saints, Women --- Women Christian saints --- Christian saints --- Women saints --- History and criticism. --- History --- Thecla, --- Ḟēkla, --- Tecla, --- Thècle, --- Thekla, --- Actes (Livres apocryphes) --- Actes apocryphes des Apôtres --- Actes des Apôtres (Livres apocryphes) --- Acts (Apocryphal books) --- Acts of the Apostles (Apocryphal books) --- Apocriefe Handelingen van de Apostelen --- Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles --- Bible. N.T. Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles --- Bible. N.T. Apocryphal books. Acts --- Bible. Nouveau Testament. Actes apocryphes des Apôtres --- Bible. Nouveau Testament. Livres apocryphes. Actes --- Bijbel. Nieuw Testament. Apocriefe Handelingen van de Apostelen --- Bijbel. Nieuw Testament. Apocriefe boeken. Handelingen --- Handelingen (Apocriefe boeken) --- Handelingen van de Apostelen (Apocriefe boeken) --- Heilige vrouwen --- Saintes --- Saints [Women ] --- History and criticism --- Christian women saints - History and criticism. --- Women in Christianity - History - Early church, ca. 30-600. --- Thecla v. m. Seleuciae in Isauria --- Thecla, - Saint. --- Thecla, - Saint - Bibliography. --- Thecla, - Saint


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The Last Years of Paul : essays from the Tarragona Conference, June 2013
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ISBN: 9783161533464 3161533461 Year: 2015 Volume: 352 Publisher: Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck,


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