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The full text of The Acts of Paul at Wikisource, translation by M. R. James in the 1924 book The Apocryphal New Testament; section II of the full Acts are the Acts of Paul and Thecla; Acts of Paul and Thecla, translated probably by Jeremiah Jones (1693–1724) "Acts of Paul and Thecla". ANF08.
The Acts of Paul and Thecla is a 2nd-century text (c. AD 180) which forms part of the Acts of Paul, but was also circulated separately.According to the text, Thecla was a young noble virgin from Iconium who chose to leave her fiancé so she could convert to Christianity and follow Paul.
The work does not use the canonical Acts of the Apostles as a source; instead it relies on oral traditions of Paul's missionary work. The text is primarily known from Greek manuscripts. [4] The discovery of a Coptic language version of the text demonstrated that the text was composed of: The Acts of Paul and Thecla; The Third Epistle to the ...
It consists of two books, the first a biography and the second an account of 46 posthumous miracles wrought by Thecla. The Life is an expansion of the earlier Greek Acts of Thecla. The full Life and Miracles is about ten times longer than the Acts. [3] The Life circulated independently of the Miracles, but the Miracles was always transmitted ...
In the Latin version of the Acts of Paul and Thecla it is added that he had a red, florid face. In The History of the Contending of Saint Paul, his countenance is described as "ruddy with the ruddiness of the skin of the pomegranate". [245] The Acts of Saint Peter confirms that Paul had a bald and shining head, with red hair. [246]
Acts of Paul and Thecla, some scholars regard the text a 1st-century creation that was later included in the Acts of Paul collection [14] Acts of Peter, second half of the 2nd century in Greek, probably in Asia Minor [15] Acts of Peter and Paul, also known as Passion of Saints Peter and Paul, c. 450–550 in Latin and Greek [16]
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Pages in category "Apocryphal Acts" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. ... Acts of Paul; Acts of Paul and Thecla; Acts of Peter; Act of Peter;