Dragaera

Teckla and Tekla

Mon Jan 5 11:48:07 PST 2004

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 11:29:12AM -0800, Philip Hart <philiph at SLAC.Stanford.EDU> wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 Talpianna at aol.com wrote:
> > There is an apocryphal book called the Acts of Paul and Thekla that is
> > basically a Christianized version of a Hellenistic romance; I can't
> > recall if it actually made it into the Apocrypha or is merely part of
> > the Pseudepigrapha.  Here is an account of her legend:
> > http://www.antiochian.org/midwest/Articles/Thekla_Equal_To_The_Apostles_And_Fi
> > rst_Martyr.htm
> Obligatory mention of the Book of The New Sun - Thecla is a major
> Wolfean character.

Which is actually pretty damned impressive, considering 
<spoiler>.

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