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The Cult of St. Thecla: A Tradition of Women's Piety in Late Antiquity
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The Cult of St. Thecla: A Tradition of Women's Piety in Late Antiquity, by Stephen J. Davis. Early Christian Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv + 288. $70.00.
The most obvious contribution of this meticulously researched and elegantly written monograph on the late ancient cults) of Thecla is its gathering of little-known archaeological evidence for the veneration of the popular female saint in Egypt-specifically at Mareotis, Kharga, and the Fayum. Yet the strength...
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; The Cult of St. Thecla: A Tradition of Women's Piety in Late Antiquity. By Stephen J. Davis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. 288 pp. $70.00. St. Thecla of Seleucia was one of the most venerated female saints in the early Church, rivaling Mary as a popular role model for female ascetic piety
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The Cult of St Thecla: A Tradition of Women's Piety in Late Antiquity.
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Truth dwells in the deeps: southwestern oral traditions and archaeological interpretations.
Journal of the Southwest
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On narrative expectations: Greenlandic oral traditions about the cultural encounter between Inuit and Norsemen.
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Feist, Thecla B.
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Wachtel, Thecla M.
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