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The Life and Miracles of Thekla
Author | : Scott Fitzgerald Johnson |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Acts of Paul and Thecla |
ISBN | : 067401961X |
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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.
Acts of Paul
Author | : Glenn E. Snyder |
Publsiher | : Mohr Siebeck |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Acts of Paul |
ISBN | : 3161527739 |
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Acts of Paul is a collection of early Christian traditions that were not included in the canonized Acts: the Acts of Paul and Thekla, 3 Corinthians, the Martyrdom of Paul, and other fabulous stories, such as Paul baptizing a lion. By the end of the second century, there was a rumor in North Africa that Acts of Paul had been fabricated by a presbyter in Asia Minor (Tertullian, De baptismo 17.5) and to this day, it is alleged that Acts of Paul is later than and inferior to the traditions preserved in Acts - historically, theologically, and otherwise. But what evidence is there for the composition and reception of Acts of Paul? In this study, Glenn E. Snyder critically examines Greek, Latin, and Coptic witnesses to Acts of Paul from the second to sixth centuries, with chapters on the independently circulating acts, extant collections, and other evidence for the formation of Acts of Paul.
Apophasis and Pseudonymity in Dionysius the Areopagite
Author | : Charles M. Stang |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2012-02-09 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780199640423 |
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This book examines the writings of an early sixth-century Christian mystical theologian who wrote under the name of a convert of the apostle Paul, Dionysius the Areopagite, and argues that the pseudonym and the corresponding influence of Paul are the crucial lens through which to read this influential corpus.
Miracle Tales from Byzantium
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 473 |
Release | : 2012-05-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780674059030 |
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Miracles occupied a unique place in medieval and Byzantine life and thought. This volume makes available three collections of miracle tales never before translated into English. They deepen our understanding of attitudes toward miracles and display the remarkable range of registers in which Greek could be written during the Byzantine period.
The Corporeal Imagination
Author | : Patricia Cox Miller |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2012-02-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780812204681 |
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With few exceptions, the scholarship on religion in late antiquity has emphasized its tendencies toward transcendence, abstraction, and spirit at the expense of matter. In The Corporeal Imagination, Patricia Cox Miller argues instead that ancient Christianity took a material turn between the fourth and seventh centuries. During this period, Miller contends, there occurred a major shift in the ways in which the human being was oriented in relation to the divine, a shift that reconfigured the relationship between materiality and meaning in a positive direction. The Corporeal Imagination is a groundbreaking investigation into the theological poetics of material substance in late ancient Christian texts. From hagiographies to literary descriptions of sacred paintings to treatises on relics and theurgy, Miller examines a wide variety of ancient texts to reveal how Christian writers increasingly described the matter of the world as invested with divine power. By appealing to the reader's sensory imagination, Christian texts endowed phenomena like relics, saints' bodies in hagiography, and saints' presence in icons with a visual and tactile presence. The book draws on a variety of contemporary theoretical models to elucidate the significance of all these materials in ancient religious life and imagination.
From Constantinople to the Frontier The City and the Cities
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 2016-05-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004307742 |
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From Constantinople to the Frontier: The City and the Cities provides twenty-five articles addressing the concept of centres and peripheries in the late antique and Byzantine worlds, focusing on urban aspects of this paradigm between the fourth and thirteenth centuries.
The Life of Thecla
Author | : Andrew S. Jacobs |
Publsiher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 121 |
Release | : 2024-05-31 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781666746402 |
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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.
Where Dreams May Come 2 vol set
Author | : Gil Renberg |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 1130 |
Release | : 2017-06-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004330238 |
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In this book, Gil H. Renberg analyzes in detail the vast range of sources for “incubation,” dream-divination at a divinity’s sanctuary or shrine, beginning in Sumerian times but primarily focussing on the Greeks and Greco-Roman Egypt.