The Life and Miracles of Thekla: A Literary Study. By Scott Fitzgerald Johnson
This fluent, scholarly study of the anonymous fifth-century document The Life and Miracles of Thecla (hereafter LM) embodies the author's Oxford D.Phil. thesis. It reveals his breadth of knowledge, extending well beyond his specialist field of Late Antiquity. But it is devoted almost entirely t...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2007
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2007, Volume: 58, Issue: 1, Pages: 310-313 |
| Review of: | The 'life and miracles of Thekla' (Washington, DC : Center for Hellenic Studies, 2006) (Daunton-Fear, Andrew)
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| Summary: | This fluent, scholarly study of the anonymous fifth-century document The Life and Miracles of Thecla (hereafter LM) embodies the author's Oxford D.Phil. thesis. It reveals his breadth of knowledge, extending well beyond his specialist field of Late Antiquity. But it is devoted almost entirely to literary analysis and literary history, and never considers whether or not Thecla was a historical figure., Introductory material includes a very brief outline of LM using the chapter numbering of G. Dagron's critical text (1978); a map showing the position of Seleuceia (spelt ‘Seleukeia’), adopted home of Thecla (‘Thekla’) in south-east Asia Minor; and, in Latin and English, the extract from the journal of the pilgrim Egeria relating her visit to Seleuceia in 384. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fll172 |