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The Acts of Paul
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ISBN: 163087146X 9781630871468 1625641710 9781625641717 9781625641717 0227174615 9780227174616 Year: 2014 Publisher: Eugene, OR


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Thekla, die Apostolin : ein Apokrypher Text neu entdeckt
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ISBN: 3451236745 Year: 1995 Publisher: Wien Herder


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Konversion in den Paulus- und Theklaakten : eine narrative Form der Paulusrezeption
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ISBN: 3161551435 9783161551437 Year: 2017 Volume: 459 Publisher: Tübingen Mohr Siebeck

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The Acts of Paul and Thecla tell of Thecla’s conversion and how she began to proclaim the Christian faith. What early Christian concepts of conversion, discipleship and faith development can be gleaned from this narrative? And what information does the text offer about the successive spread of Christianity in ancient society at the end of the second century? Veronika Niederhofer’s analytic narrative exegesis vouches for the Acts of Paul and Thecla’s historical and theological importance for early Christian piety and its conceptual world. The author shows that the story can be read as a layered drama paradigmatically describing the theme of conversion as a dynamic and multi-stage process in the changing of worlds, and thus demonstrates a new and subtle form of Paul exegesis through the narrative application of canonical texts, and Pauline ideas in particular.


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Saint Thecla : body politics and masculine rhetoric
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ISSN: 25138790 ISBN: 9780567691767 0567691764 9780567691774 9780567691798 0567691799 0567691772 Year: 2020 Volume: 617 Publisher: London Bloomsbury T&T Clark

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"This volume questions the prevailing 'female empowering' interpretation of Thecla in the Acts of Paul and Thecla. Rosie Andrious examines the way that Thecla is voyeuristically paraded and subjected to a kind of sado-erotic torture, and demonstrates how this perception clashes with any notion that she is presented as a positive role-model for a woman. Rather, Andrious sets this discourse about female 'self-control' and 'chastity' over against the wider narrative of Christian men struggling against the invasive violence of Rome and suggests that the victimized, voyeuristic female representation of Thecla has very little to do with women and is, rather, a complex literary text that represents a power struggle between men. The ideological function of Thecla is therefore, as a constructed body that transcends its 'natural' feminine weakness. Andrious thus provides an original interpretative framework for understanding Thelca's representation, and suggests a completely new way of seeing the saint"--


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The Apostles Peter, Paul, John, Thomas and Philip with their companions in Late Antiquity
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ISBN: 9789042945531 9042945532 9789042945548 Year: 2021 Volume: 17 Publisher: Leuven Peeters

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"This book is the first modern collection of studies on the reception of the apostles and their companions in Late Antiquity, earlier Middle Ages and the Orthodox Churches. The volume opens with an exploration of the nature of the stories about the apostles in Late Antiquity, highlighting some of the questions and problems these stories tried to answer. Chapter 2 takes us to the Forum Romanum and the Apostle Peter, and the latter's antagonist Simon Magus appears again in the next chapter. The next five chapters focus on Paul and Thecla. The first two look at the relationship between the canonical Acts of the Apostles and the Acts of Paul by concentrating on spatial aspects as well as sex and intermarriage, respectively. Three chapters concentrate on Thecla and show that the Acts of Paul and Thecla and Thecla herself enjoyed a very high reputation, were seen as authoritative - if not canonical in certain circles - and a source of inspiration for later hagiographers. We see the apostle John at work in the fairly unfamiliar Acts of John by Prochorus and the Acts of Timothy, but also his connection with the church S. Giovanni a Porta Latina in Rome. The section on Thomas takes up the textual tradition of the Acts of Thomas with new manuscripts, and the reception of the Acts in the hagiography and liturgy of the Orthodox Churches. The last two chapters focus on Philip, whose Acts Acts shows that in fourth-century Hierapolis local paganism was still a factor to be taken into account and to be fought, but also that the treatise promoted ideals of civility and self-control, which were not that far removed from those in the Gospels. As has become usual, the volume ends with a detailed index."

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Church history --- 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 --- Christianity --- Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Peter, --- Paul, --- John, --- Thecla, --- Thomas, --- Didymos, --- Didymos Judas Thomas, --- Didymus, --- Ḟoma, --- Petrus --- Pierre --- Peter --- Cephas, --- Pedro, --- Petrus, --- Pietro, --- Simon Bar Jona, --- Simon Peter, --- Simon Petrus, --- Pavel, --- Pavol, --- Paulus, --- Paulos, --- Pōghos, --- Paweł, --- Pawełm --- Būlus, --- Pablo, --- Paulo, --- Paolo, --- Pál, --- Apostolos Paulos --- Saul, --- القديس بولس الرسول --- بولس، --- 사도바울 --- Ḟēkla, --- Tecla, --- Thècle, --- Thekla, --- Giovanni, --- Hovhannēs, --- Ioann, --- Jan, --- Jean, --- Jehan, --- Johannes, --- Yūḥannā, --- Beloved Disciple --- Acts of Paul and Thecla --- Acts of Peter --- Acts of Paul --- Acts of John --- Acts of Thomas --- Acts of Philip --- Acta Philippi --- Actes de Philippe --- Apocryphal Acts of Philip --- Atti di Filippo --- Bible. --- Philip, Acts of --- Acta Joannis --- Acta Johannis --- Akten des Johannes --- Johannes-Akten --- Praxeis Iōannou --- Paul, Acts of --- Acti Pauli --- Apocryphal Acts of Paul --- Apocryphal Acts of Peter --- Peter, Acts of --- Acta Pauli et Theclae --- Actes de Paul et Thècle --- De miraculis sancti Thomae apostoli --- Passio sancti Thomae apostoli --- Thomasakten --- Acts of Paul and Thecla. --- Acts of Peter. --- Acts of Paul. --- Acts of John. --- Acts of Thomas. --- Acts of Philip. --- Middle Ages. --- 600-1500. --- Church history - Middle Ages, 600-1500. --- Apôtres --- Acta apocrypha --- Peter, - the Apostle, Saint. --- Paul, - the Apostle, Saint. --- John, - the Apostle, Saint. --- Thecla, - Saint. --- Thomas, - Apostle, Saint, - active 1st century. --- Peter, - the Apostle, Saint --- Paul, - the Apostle, Saint --- John, - the Apostle, Saint --- Thecla, - Saint --- Thomas, - Apostle, Saint, - active 1st century

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