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- The Cult of St. Thecla in Asia Minor
- Seleucia (modern Silifke), Turkey
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- Most of the articles listed below are in the Dig Sites folder on Camino : Files; many of the books are on hard copy reserve at the Circulation Desk in the Learning Commons.
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- Archaeological & Epigraphic Evidence
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- Davis, Stephen J. The Cult of Saint Thecla: A Tradition of Women's Piety in Late Antiquity, Oxford Early Christian Studies. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. (eBook)
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- --------. "Namesakes of Saint Thecla in Late Antique Egypt." Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 36:1-4 (1999) 71-81.
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- --------. "Pilgrimage and the Cult of Saint Thecla in Late Antique Egypt." In Pilgrimage and Holy Space in Late Antique Egypt (ed. David Frankfurter; Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 134; Boston: E. J. Brill, 1998) 303-339, iii.
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- Elliott, J. Keith. "The Christian Apocrypha and Archaeology." In Jesus and Archaeology (ed. James H. Charlesworth; Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 2006) 683-91.
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- Wright, Ruth M. Ohm. "Rendezvous with Thekla and Paul in Ephesos: Excavating the Evidence." In Distant Voices Drawing Near: Essays in Honor of Antoinette Clark Wire (ed. Holly E. Hearon; Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 2004) 227-42.
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- NOTE: Archaeologist Fabrizio Bisconti is currently excavating and restoring the frescoes in the Catacomb of Saint Thecla on the Via Ostiensis in Rome. The work is funded by the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology. Here are some links to popular articles on the excavations:
- Escobedo, Tricia. "Vatican: Oldest Known Images of Apostles Andrew and John Found." "CNN: Belief Blog (22 June 2010), online, http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/22/vatican-oldest-known-images-of-apostles-andrew-and-john-found/, accessed 10 October 2009.
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- Pullella, Philip. "Archaeologists Find Oldest Paintings of Apostles." Reuters (22 June 2010), online, http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/06/22/us-catacombs-idUSTRE65L3IX20100622, accessed 10 October 2009.
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- Literary Evidence
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- Primary Texts
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- Acts of Paul and Thecla
- Sections 5-6: Clark, Elizabeth A., trans. "Acts of Paul and Thecla." In Women in the Early Church (Message of the Fathers of the Church 13; Wilmington, Delaware: Michael Glazier, 1983) 79-80. [In the required readings folder on Camino : Files]
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- All other sections: Kraemer, Ross Shepard, trans. "105. Thecla of Iconium, an Ascetic Christian and the Prototypical Convert." In Women’s Religions in the Greco-Roman World: A Sourcebook (ed. Ross S. Kraemer; New York: Oxford University Press, 2004) 297-307; originally published as Maenads, Martyrs, Matrons, Monastics: A Sourcebook on Women’s Religions in the Greco-Roman World (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1988). [In the required readings folder on Camino : Files]
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- Secondary Literature
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- Barrier, Jeremy W. The Acts of Paul and Thecla: A Critical Introduction and Commentary. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2009.
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- Braun, Willi. "Physiotherapy of Femininity in the Acts of Thecla." In Text and Artifact in the Religions of Mediterranean Antiquity: Essays in Honour of Peter Richardson (ed. Stephen G. Wilson and Michel Desjardins; Studies in Christianity and Judaism/Études sur le Christianisme et le judaïsme 9; Waterloo, Ontario: Published for the Canadian Corp. for Studies in Religion = Corp. Canadienne des Sciences Religieuses by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2000) 209-230.
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- Brock, Ann Graham. "Political Authority and Cultural Accommodation: Social Diversity in the Acts of Paul and the Acts of Peter." In The Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles: Harvard Divinity School Studies (ed. François Bovon, Ann Graham Brock and Christopher R. Matthews; Religions of the World; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press for the Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions, 1999) 145-69.
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- Burris, Catherine and Lucas van Rompay. "Some Further Notes on Thecla in Syriac Christianity." Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 6:2 (2003). Online, http://syrcom.cua.edu/Hugoye/Vol6No2/HV6N2BurrisVanRompay.html.
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- -------. "Thecla in Syriac Christianity: Preliminary Observations." Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 5:2 (2002). Online, http://syrcom.cua.edu/Hugoye/Vol5No2/HV5N2BurrisVanRompay.html.
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- Burrus, Virginia. Chastity as Autonomy: Women in the Stories of the Apocryphal Acts, Studies in Women and Religion 23. Lewiston, New York: E. Mellen, 1987.
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- Calef, Susan A. "Thecla 'Tried and True' and the Inversion of Romance." In A Feminist Companion to the New Testament Apocrypha (ed. Amy-Jill Levine with Maria Mayo Robbins; Feminist Companion to the New Testament and Early Christian Writings; New York: T & T Clark International, 2006) 163-85.
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- Davis, Stephen J. "Crossed Texts, Crossed Sex: Intertextuality and Gender in Early Christian Legends of Holy Women Disguised as Men." Journal of Early Christian Studies 10:1 (2002) 1-36.
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- --------. "A 'Pauline' Defense of Women's Right to Baptize? Intertextuality and Apostolic Authority in the Acts of Paul." Journal of Early Christian Studies 8:3 (2000) 453-9.
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- Davis, Stevan L. The Revolt of the Widows: The Social World of the Apocryphal Acts. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1980.
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- Dunn, David J. "'Her That Is No Bride': St. Thecla and the Relationship between Sex, Gender, and Office." St. Vladimir's Theological Quarterly 54:1 (2010) 37-68.
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- Haines-Eitzen, Kim. "Engendering Palimpsests: Reading the Textual Tradition of the Acts of Paul and Thecla." In The Early Christian Book (ed. William E. Klingshirn and Linda Safran; Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2007) 177-93.
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- Hirt, Susan Christine. "Erotic Vision in the Conversions of Aseneth and Thecla." Ph.D. Dissertation, Stanford University, 2001.
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- Hoek, Annewies van den and John J. Herrmann, Jr. "Thecla the Beast Fighter: A Female Emblem of Deliverance in Early Christian Popular Art." Studia Philonica Annual 13 (2001) 212-49.
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- Hylen, Susan E. A Modest Apostle: Thecla and the History of Women in the Early Church. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
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- Konstan, David. "Acts of Love: A Narrative Pattern in the Apocryphal Acts." Journal of Early Christian Studies 6:1 (1998) 15-36.
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- --------. Sexual Symmetry: Love in the Ancient Novel and Related Genres. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1994.
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- Matthews, Shelly. "Thinking of Thecla: Issues in Feminist Historiography." Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 17:2 (2001) 39-55.
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- Misset-van de Weg, Magda. "Magic, Miracle and Miracle Workers in the Acts of Thecla." In Women and Miracle Stories: A Multidisciplinary Investigation (ed. Anne-Marie Korte; Numen Book Series Studies in the History of Religions 88; Boston: Brill, 2001) 29-52.
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- Ng, Esther Yue L. "Acts of Paul and Thecla: Women's Stories and Precedent?" Journal of Theological Studies n.s. 55:1 (2004) 1-29.
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- Nolan, Steve. "Narrative as a Strategic Resource for Resistance: Reading the Acts of Thecla for its Political Purposes." In Narrativity in Biblical and Related Texts=La narrativité dans la bible et les texts apparentés (ed. George J. Brooke and Jean-Daniel Kaestli; Leuven: Leuven University Press/Peeters, 2000) 225-42.
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- Roetzel, Calvin J. "Sex and the Single God: Celibacy as Social Deviancy in the Roman Period." In Text and Artifact in the Religions of Mediterranean Antiquity: Essays in Honour of Peter Richardson (ed. Stephen G. Wilson and Michel R. Desjardins; Studies in Christianity and Judaism/Études sur le Christianisme et le judaïsme 9; Waterloo, Ontario: Published for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion = Corp. Canadienne des Xciences Religieuses by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2000) 231-48.
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- Vorster, Johannes N. "Construction of Culture through the Construction of Person: The Acts of Thecla as an Example." In Rhetorical Analysis of Scripture: Essays from the 1995 London Conference (ed. Stanley E. Porter and Thomas H. Olbricht; JSNTSup 146; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997) 445-73.
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- Wehn, Beatte. "'Blessed are the Bodies of Those Who are Virgins': Reflections on the Image of Paul in the Acts of Thecla," trans. Brian McNeil. Journal for the Study of the New Testament 79 (2000) 149-64.
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- Wudel, Diane. "Seductions of Self-control: Narrative Transformation in Hermas, Thecla, and Aseneth." Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005.
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