References Accorinti, D., ed. 1996. Nonno di Panopoli—Parafrasi del Vangelo di S. Giovanni, Canto XX: Introduzione, testo critico, traduzione e commento. Pisa. Achtemeier, P. 1970. “Towards the Isolation of Pre-Markan Miracle Catenae.” JBL 89:265–291. Adler, W. 1989. Time Immemorial: Archaic History and its Sources in Christian Chronography from Julius Africanus to George Syncellus. Washington, DC. … Read more
Appendix 3: Early Byzantine Miracle Collections: A Select Catalogue The list below comprises a select (alphabetical) catalogue of miracle collections in Greek from early Byzantium, fifth to eighth centuries. [1] While I have included the Miracles of Thekla as part of this catalogue, I would at the same time seek to distinguish the Miracles from these other collections on the basis of… Read more
Appendix 2: The Reception of the Acts of Paul and Thekla in Late Antique Sermons (Pseudo-Chrysostom and Severus of Antioch) The close reading of the Life offered in Chapter One above is designed to illustrate the literary activity of one writer on one text. The Life is a literary paraphrase of the ATh that exhibits certain choices in language and technique unique to its author and setting. Read more
Appendix 1: A Variant Ending to Thekla’s Apostolic Career The overall significance of the changed ending in the Life can be brought into greater relief by comparing a near-contemporary version of these events, which also attempts to wrest control away from the ATh, though in different ways. This version is a Greek extension (and not a paraphrase) of the ATh and was written probably in the fifth… Read more
Conclusion A reader of this study will note that I have only at a few points highlighted the implications of Thekla’s female gender for the LM. [1] This is because I do not feel that this work is a “gendered” text in the way that word is used in scholarship on antiquity and the middle ages. [2]… Read more
Chapter 4. Greek Wonders: Classical Models for Christian Miracle Collections [1] Introduction: Mistaking Content for Form The question of whether classical literature had a formative influence on the genre of the Christian miracle collection in late antiquity was left unaddressed by André-Jean Festugière’s well known selection of translations, Collections grecques de miracles: Sainte Thècle, Saints Côme et Damien, Saints Cyr et… Read more
Chapter 3. History, Narrative, and Miracle in Late Antique Seleukeia: Thekla’s θαύµατα and their Collector Introduction: Herodotean Precedent and the Autobiographical Rhetoric of Miracle-Collecting The short history of paraphrase presented in the last chapter was not designed to be comprehensive but only to point to the widespread use of the form in early Christian and late antique literature. The issue of form is central, I argue,… Read more
Chapter 2. Biblical Rewriting and the Metaphrastic Habit: The Life of Thekla within the History of Ancient Paraphrase Prologue: Erasmus and the Conflict over his Paraphrases on the New Testament For a paraphrase is a plain setting foorth of a texte or sentence more at large, with such circumstance of mo [i.e. more] and other wordes as maie make the sentence open, clere, plain,… Read more
Chapter 1. Paraphrase in Practice: The Life of Thekla and Literary Inheritance in Late Antiquity The Ever-Present Past in the Life and Miracles The form of the literary paraphrase says a great deal about what the author of the Life of Thekla is attempting to do in literary historical terms: by choosing to write a saint’s Life through the lens of a second-century apocryphon, the author… Read more
Introduction [In this on-line version, the page-numbers of the printed version are indicated within braces (“{” and “}”). For example, “{69|70}” indicates where p. 69 of the printed version ends and p. 70 begins. These indications will be useful to readers who need to look up references made elsewhere to the printed version of this book.] The extended epigraph printed on the previous pages comprises the… Read more
