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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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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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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

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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.

Conversion --- 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&delete& --- History and criticism --- Thecla, --- Ḟēkla, --- Tecla, --- Thècle, --- Thekla, --- Legends --- History and criticism. --- Acts of Paul and Thecla --- Acts of Paul --- Bible. --- Paul, Acts of --- Acti Pauli --- Apocryphal Acts of Paul --- Acta Pauli et Theclae --- Actes de Paul et Thècle --- Criticism and interpretation, etc. --- Religious conversion --- Psychology, Religious --- Proselytizing --- Christianity

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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"--

Thecla, --- Acts of Paul and Thecla. --- Acts of Paul --- Acts of Paul. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- 229*42 --- 235.3 --- 235.3 Hagiografie --- 235.3 Hagiographie --- Hagiografie --- Hagiographie --- 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 --- Ḟēkla, --- Tecla, --- Thècle, --- Thekla, --- Acta Pauli et Theclae --- Actes de Paul et Thècle --- Bible. --- Paul, Acts of --- Acti Pauli --- Apocryphal Acts of Paul --- Thecla, - Saint.