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This book is the first modern collection of studies on the reception of
the apostles and their companions in Late Antiquity, earlier Middle Ages
and the Orthodox Churches. The volume opens with an exploration of the
nature of the stories about the apostles in Late Antiquity, highlighting
some of the questions and problems these stories tried to answer.
Chapter 2 takes us to the Forum Romanum and the Apostle Peter, and the
latter's antagonist Simon Magus appears again in the next chapter. The
next five chapters focus on Paul and Thecla. The first two look at the
relationship between the canonical Acts of the Apostles and the Acts of
Paul by concentrating on spatial aspects as well as sex and
intermarriage, respectively. Three chapters concentrate on Thecla and
show that the Acts of Paul and Thecla and Thecla herself enjoyed a very
high reputation, were seen as authoritative—if not canonical in certain
circles—and a source of inspiration for later hagiographers. We see the
apostle John at work in the fairly unfamiliar Acts of John by Prochorus
and the Acts of Timothy, but also his connection with the church S.
Giovanni a Porta Latina in Rome. The section on Thomas takes up the
textual tradition of the Acts of Thomas with new manuscripts, and the
reception of the Acts in the hagiography and liturgy of the Orthodox
Churches. The last two chapters focus on Philip, whose Acts Acts shows
that in fourth-century Hierapolis local paganism was still a factor to
be taken into account and to be fought, but also that the treatise
promoted ideals of civility and self-control, which were not that far
removed from those in the Gospels. As has become usual, the volume ends
with a detailed index.
