Saint Thecla

Author : Stephen J. Davis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198270195

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The Cult of Saint Thecla by Stephen J. Davis Pdf

"Thecla, a disciple of the apostle Paul, became perhaps the most celebrated female saint and 'martyr' among Christians in late antiquity. In the early church, Thecla's example was associated with the piety of women - in particular, with women's ministry and travel. Devotion to Saint Thecla quickly spread throughout the Mediterranean world: her image was painted on walls of tombs, stamped on clay flasks and oil lamps, engraved on bronze crosses and wooden combs, and even woven into textile curtains. Bringing together literary, artistic, and archaeological evidence, often for the first time, Stephen Davis here reconstructs the cult of Saint Thecla in Asia Minor and Egypt - the social practices, institutions, and artefacts that marked the lives of actual devotees. From this evidence the author shows how the cult of this female saint remained closely linked with communities of women as a source of empowerment and a cause of controversy."--Jacket.

Author : Rosie Andrious
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567691798

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Saint Thecla by Rosie Andrious Pdf

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.

Author : Stephen J. Davis
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001-02-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191568350

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The Cult of Saint Thecla by Stephen J. Davis Pdf

Thecla, a disciple of the apostle Paul, became perhaps the most celebrated female saint and 'martyr' among Christians in late antiquity. In the early church, Thecla's example was associated with the piety of women - in particular, with women's ministry and travel. Devotion to Saint Thecla quickly spread throughout the Mediterranean world: her image was painted on walls of tombs, stamped on clay flasks and oil lamps, engraved on bronze crosses and wooden combs, and even woven into textile curtains. Bringing together literary, artistic, and archaeological evidence, often for the first time, Stephen Davis here reconstructs the cult of Saint Thecla in Asia Minor and Egypt - the social practices, institutions, and artefacts that marked the lives of actual devotees. From this evidence the author shows how the cult of this female saint remained closely linked with communities of women as a source of empowerment and a cause of controversy.

Author : Ghazzal Dabiri,Flavia Ruani
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1009005057

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Thecla and Medieval Sainthood by Ghazzal Dabiri,Flavia Ruani Pdf

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.

Author : Andrew S. Jacobs
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666746402

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The Life of Thecla by Andrew S. Jacobs Pdf

Thecla was one of the most venerated saints in late antiquity. One of her followers created the Life of Thecla as an act of devotion in the fifth century, rewriting the popular Acts of Thecla and transforming it into the heroic saga of a saint. Replete with long speeches, dramatic flourishes, and literary flamboyance, the Life of Thecla gives modern readers insight into the ways a gender-bending apostolic saint could be reframed and reimagined for later audiences. This first modern English translation of the Life explores its relationship with the earlier Acts as well as its place in fifth-century concerns about miracles, healing, sainthood, and sexuality.

Author : Ghazzal Dabiri,Flavia Ruani
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316519219

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Thecla and Medieval Sainthood by Ghazzal Dabiri,Flavia Ruani Pdf

Explores Saint Thecla and her story as preeminent models for medieval hagiographers across Eurasia and North Africa.

Author : Rosie Andrious
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567691774

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Saint Thecla by Rosie Andrious Pdf

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.

Author : Joan E. Taylor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567312228

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The Body in Biblical, Christian and Jewish Texts by Joan E. Taylor Pdf

The body is an entity on which religious ideology is printed. Thus it is frequently a subject of interest, anxiety, prescription and regulation in both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, as well as in early Christian and Jewish writings. Issues such as the body's age, purity, sickness, ability, gender, sexual actions, marking, clothing, modesty or placement can revolve around what the body is and is not supposed to be or do. The Body in Biblical, Christian and Jewish Texts comprises a range of inter-disciplinary and creative explorations of the body as it is described and defined in religious literature, with chapters largely written by new scholars with fresh perspectives. This is a subject with wide and important repercussions in diverse cultural contexts today.

Author : Scott Fitzgerald Johnson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Acts of Paul and Thecla
ISBN : 067401961X

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The Life and Miracles of Thekla by Scott Fitzgerald Johnson Pdf

The Life and Miracles of Thekla offers a unique view on the reception of classical and early Christian literature in Late Antiquity. This study examines the Life and Miracles as an intricate example of Greek writing and attempts to situate the work amidst a wealth of similar literary forms from the classical world. The first half of the Life and Miracles is an erudite paraphrase of the famous second-century Acts of Paul and Thekla. The second half is a collection of forty-six miracles that Thekla worked before and during the composition of the collection. This study represents a detailed investigation into the literary character of this ambitious Greek work from Late Antiquity.

Author : David Frankfurter
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004298064

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Pilgrimage and Holy Space in Late Antique Egypt by David Frankfurter Pdf

This volume deals with the origins and rise of Christian pilgrimage cults in late antique Egypt. Part One covers the major theoretical issues in the study of Coptic pilgrimage, such as sacred landscape and shrines' catchment areas, while Part Two examines native Egyptian and Egyptian Jewish pilgrimage practices. Part Three investigates six major shrines, from Philae's diverse non-Christian devotees to the great pilgrim center of Abu Mina and a Thecla shrine on its route. Part Four looks at such diverse pilgrims' rites as oracles, chant, and stational liturgy, while Part Five brings in Athanasius's and an anonymous hagiographer's perspectives on pilgrimage in Egypt. The volume includes illustrations of the Abu Mina site, pilgrims' ampules from the Thecla shrine, as well as several maps.

Author : Outi Lehtipuu,Silke Petersen
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781628375190

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Ancient Christian Apocrypha by Outi Lehtipuu,Silke Petersen Pdf

This latest volume in the Bible and Women series examines ancient noncanonical Christian texts for what they reveal about women, their engagement with Scripture, and attitudes toward them in texts dating to the second to eighth century. Three sections include once-forgotten texts rediscovered in locations such as Nag Hammadi, those that have been in continuous use through the centuries, and works written by women that are traditionally excluded from discussions of noncanonical texts. Contributors Bernadette J. Brooten, María José Cabezas Cabello, Anna Carfora, Ute E. Eisen, Judith Hartenstein, Ursula Ulrike Kaiser, Karen L. King, Outi Lehtipuu, Heidrun Mader, Antti Marjanen, Silvia Pellegrini, Silke Petersen, Uwe-Karsten Plisch, Cristina Simonelli, Anna Rebecca Solevåg, M. Dolores Martin Trutet, and Carmen Bernabé Ubieta examine a range of texts, including noncanonical gospels and acts, poems, prophecy, and grave inscriptions.

Author : Alban Butler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1814
Category : Saints
ISBN : HARVARD:HWAJMV

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The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints by Alban Butler Pdf

Author : Jan N. Bremmer
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9039001529

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The Apocryphal Acts of Paul and Thecla by Jan N. Bremmer Pdf

This is the first modern book, which studies the most important aspects of this early Christian treatise, of which especially the Acts of Thecla and the Martyrdom of Paul were immensely popular in the Christian Church from Armenia to Anglo-Saxon England. The volume studies (1) the readership of the Acts, (2) important themes such as the resurrection, possible gnostic elements, the role of women (with a detailed study of the Acts of Thecla), Paul's encounter with the lion, his physiognomy, the events after Paul's martyrdom, the relationship with the canonical Acts and the text of the famous Codex Bezae, parallels with the Old and New Testament, and (3) the popularity of Thecla in later times. The wealth of episodes and details in these Acts makes the book of great interest to church historians, ancient historians, students of the New Testament, early Christianity, the ancient novel and of Women's Studies.

Author : Mary Ellen Konieczny
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199965793

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The Spirit's Tether by Mary Ellen Konieczny Pdf

Through detailed ethnographic analysis of one conservative and one progressive parish, this book reveals how church metaphors and religious identities matter to parishioners' marriages, childrearing, and work-family balance; connect everyday life with public politics; and unintentionally fragment the Catholic tradition.

Author : Richard Stanton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Martyrs
ISBN : UCAL:$B55018

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A Menology of England and Wales by Richard Stanton Pdf