The Christian apocrypha, texts not included in the Bible, include stories of Jesus’ female followers – including St. Thecla.

The Biblia Sacra et Ultra includes 300 complete books in the print portion, plus permanent digital access to an expanded and growing library of thousands of additional works Expanding on previous ...

We refer routinely to “Paul’s Letter to the Philippians” or “the Gospel of Luke,” and most Christians today assume that Paul and Luke were the authors of these works. Countless paintings throughout ...

Karen L. King is Professor of New Testament Studies and the History of Ancient Christianity at Harvard University in the Divinity School. She has published widely in the areas of Gnosticism, ancient ...

(THE CONVERSATION) The Bible is filled with brave and courageous women. The stories of these confident women are found in the Hebrew Bible, the sacred text of Judaism, which also forms half of the ...

Christy Cobb does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

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A relic said to be part of Saint Thecla's arm has been kept in the Cathedral of Tarragona, Spain for centuries. Gaspar Ros/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA The Bible is filled with brave and courageous ...