A Note on Terminology and Transliteration By way of explanation rather than apology, I should clarify what I mean by the term “literary” in the title of this book. I do not mean to claim that the Life and Miracles is high literature on the level of… Read more
Epigraph Et sic proficiscens de Anthiocia faciens iter per mansiones aliquot perueni ad prouinciam, quae Cilicia appellatur, quae habet ciuitatem metropolim Tharso, ubi quidem Tharso et eundo Ierusolimam iam fueram. Sed quoniam de Tharso tertia mansione, id est in Hisauria, est martyrium sanctae Teclae, gratum… Read more
Preface The appearance of Scott Johnson’s The Life and Miracles of Thekla, A Literary Study in the series “Hellenic Studies” marks an important new direction for the publications program of the Center for Hellenic Studies. The field of study represented by this book is Late Antiquity, a… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… Read more
