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Book SynopsisThe 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.
Trade ReviewA revision of Fitzgerald Johnson’s Oxford thesis, this volume contributes significantly to recent scholarship on early Christian Thekla devotion by treating the afterlife of the
Acts of Thekla through the “crowning jewel of Thecla devotion in late antiquity”—the fifth-century
Life and Miracles of Thekla (LM)...Throughout, Fitzgerald Johnson points us to the interplay between the anonymous author of the
LM and the figure of Thekla, and, in so doing, he reminds his readers that 'text and cult mutually interacted to the point that there is no way today to separate them without doing damage to the surviving record.' In Fitzgerald Johnson’s important study, the
LM provides a window onto that complex historical web of narrative production and ritual devotion. -- Kim Haines-Eitzen * Religious Studies Review *
