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"It is an old, yet powerful story. A beautiful young woman falls in love, and try as they might, her disapproving family and friends fail to dissuade her from that love or keep her from her beloved. Persistent and uncompromising, the young woman disrupts the social order of her world, be it that of high school or high society. And by tale's end, either the lover and her beloved are integrated back into society, or a new world order arises (uneasily sometimes) out of the ashes. Perusing through a list of popular young adult novels, teen movies, and ancient romances, one may be struck by the sheer number of stories that follow this arc. The same storyline was also popular in the late antique and medieval periods. A subset of the latter, however, follow a slightly different track. They detail the lives and trials of women who have fallen deeply and irrevocably in love with the transcendental, namely the word of God, and some, even on pain of torture and death, claim Christ as their eternal bridegroom"--

Christian hagiography --- Christian hagiography. --- HISTORY / Ancient / General. --- Hagiographie chrétienne --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique. --- Thecla, --- Thecla, --- Acts of Paul and Thecla. --- Acts of Paul and Thecla.

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The New Testament and other early Christian writings point to leadership roles for women at the same time that they affirm cultural norms of women’s modesty and silence. A Modest Apostle offers a new way of understanding this contradictory evidence for women’s lives. Challenging the view that women leaders were exceptions to the rule or evidence of heretical communities that encouraged women’s participation, the book argues that modesty and leadership were ideals that Roman culture held together. Women were expected to take active roles in the pursuit of familial and community interests, even as they embodied traditional gendered virtues like modesty. Thecla is the book’s central example of how the evidence for Christian women’s leadership may be read against this cultural background. Instead of contrasting Thecla’s story in the Acts of Paul and Thecla with 1 Timothy, the book reads both texts as reflections of complex cultural norms that both restricted and enabled the participation of married and unmarried women in civic and religious life. In its devotion to Thecla, the later church continued to embrace her leadership alongside the modest elements of her character. The book’s approach points to a new way of understanding women in the early church that insists upon the historical reality of women’s leadership without neglecting the effects of the culture’s gender biases.

Women in Christianity --- 396.7 --- History --- Vrouw en religie --- Thecla, --- Ḟēkla, --- Tecla, --- Thècle, --- Thekla, --- Bible. --- Acts of Paul and Thecla --- Acta Pauli et Theclae --- Actes de Paul et Thècle --- 1st Timothy (Book of the New Testament) --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Early church. --- Acts of Paul and Thecla. --- 30-600. --- 396.7 Vrouw en religie --- Women in Christianity - History - Early church, ca. 30-600 --- Thecla v. m. Seleuciae in Isauria --- Thecla, - Saint

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Saint Thecla was one of the most prominent figures of early Christianity who provided a model of virginity and a role-model for women in the early Church. She was the object of cult and of pilgrimage and her tale in the Acts of Paul and Thecla made a tremendous impact on later hagiographies of both female and male saints. This volume explores this impact on medieval hagiographical texts composed in Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopic, Greek, Irish, Latin, Persian, and Syriac. It investigates how they evoked and/or invoked Thecla and her tale in constructing the lives and story worlds of their chosen saints and offers detailed original readings of the lives of various heroines and heroes. The book adds further depth and nuance to our understanding of Thecla's popularity and the spread of her legend and cult.

Christian hagiography --- Hagiographie chrétienne --- HISTORY / Ancient / General. --- Christian hagiography. --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique. --- Thecla, --- Acts of Paul and Thecla. --- Hagiography, Christian --- Hagiography --- Ḟēkla, --- Tecla, --- Thècle, --- Thekla, --- Acta Pauli et Theclae --- Actes de Paul et Thècle --- Thècle, sainte --- Bible --- Hagiographie chrétienne -- Empire byzantin --- Paulus ap. --- Thecla v. m. Seleuciae in Isauria --- HISTORY / Ancient / General

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Thecla, --- Legends --- History and criticism --- Acts of Paul and Thecla --- Acts of Paul --- Criticism, interpretation, etc --- #GGSB: Exegese N.T. --- #GGSB: Paulus --- 229*42 --- Apocriefe handelingen der apostelen van Andreas, Barnabas, Philippus, Jacobus, Johannes, Matthaeus, Paulus, Petrus, Pilatus, Thomas, Paulus en Thecla, Petrus en Paulus --- 229*42 Apocriefe handelingen der apostelen van Andreas, Barnabas, Philippus, Jacobus, Johannes, Matthaeus, Paulus, Petrus, Pilatus, Thomas, Paulus en Thecla, Petrus en Paulus --- #GGSB: Exegese N.T --- Ḟēkla, --- Tecla, --- Thècle, --- Thekla, --- History and criticism. --- Acts of Paul and Thecla. --- Bible. --- Paul, Acts of --- Acti Pauli --- Apocryphal Acts of Paul --- Acta Pauli et Theclae --- Actes de Paul et Thècle --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Exegese N.T --- Paulus --- Thecla v. m. Seleuciae in Isauria --- Thecla, - Saint - Legends - History and criticism --- Thecla, - Saint

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Thecla, --- Acts of Paul and Thecla --- Acts of Paul --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- 229*42 --- Apocriefe handelingen der apostelen van Andreas, Barnabas, Philippus, Jacobus, Johannes, Matthaeus, Paulus, Petrus, Pilatus, Thomas, Paulus en Thecla, Petrus en Paulus --- 229*42 Apocriefe handelingen der apostelen van Andreas, Barnabas, Philippus, Jacobus, Johannes, Matthaeus, Paulus, Petrus, Pilatus, Thomas, Paulus en Thecla, Petrus en Paulus --- Ḟēkla, --- Tecla, --- Thècle, --- Thekla, --- Bible. --- Paul, Acts of --- Acti Pauli --- Apocryphal Acts of Paul --- Acta Pauli et Theclae --- Actes de Paul et Thècle --- Thecla v. m. Seleuciae in Isauria --- Thecla, - Saint