Julie Van Pelt

The Life of Thecla

History & Biography

“By offering the first modern English translation of the Life of Thecla, this volume fulfills a longstanding desideratum in the field of late antique Christianity. The elaborate introduction speaks to a broad audience by contextualizing the work in an accessible manner while offering a clear road into the Life’s main themes and the abundant scholarship on the immensely popular figure of Thecla, her second-century Acts, her late antique cult, and later receptions of those.”