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    "id": 2405,
    "subject": "WHAT'S IN A NAME? A GNOSTIC THECLA?",
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    "first": "2000-10-19T09:29:22+00:00",
    "last": "2000-10-19T09:29:22+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<urth-v0030-0029@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Urash, Tom",
        "address": "turash at firstam.com"
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      "date": "2000-10-19T09:29:22+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) WHAT'S IN A NAME? A GNOSTIC THECLA?",
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          "text": "I came across this line in The Jesus Mysteries, by Timothy Freke and Peter\nGandy, published this year by Random House. This is the last sentence of\nthe 1st paragraph on page 160:\n\n\"Another text, called The Acts of Paul, describes Paul travelling with a\ncompanion called Thecla -- a woman who conducted babtisms.\" \n\nThe authors cite Barstone, W., The Other Bible, HarperCollins, 1984.\n\nI found 2 non-botanical \"Thec(k)las\" on the web that may be of interest:\nTHEKLA (f) \"glory of God\" from the Greek elements theos meaning \"god\" and\nkleos meaning \"glory\". Saint Thekla was supposedly the first female martyr\n(1st century). \nThecla (St.), styled in Greek martyrologies the proto-martyress, as St.\nStephen is the proto-martyr. All that is known of her is from a book\ncalled the Periods, or Acts of Paul and Theela, pronounced apocryphal by\nPope Gelasius, and unhappily lost. According to the legend, Thecla was\nborn of a noble family in Iconium, and was converted by the preaching of\nSt. Paul.\n\nFor what its worth, The Jesus Mysteries is the best of the \"searching for\nthe historical Jesus\" books I've ever come across. The \"customer reviews\"\nat the Amazon site below are, to say the the least, spirited, n.p.i.\n\nhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/102-7300973-2624959\n\ntom urash"
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      "message_id": "<urth-v0030-0030@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Urash, Tom",
        "address": "turash at firstam.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-10-19T09:29:22+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) WHAT'S IN A NAME? A GNOSTIC THECLA?",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0030-0029@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "I came across this line in The Jesus Mysteries, by Timothy Freke and Peter\nGandy, published this year by Random House. This is the last sentence of\nthe 1st paragraph on page 160:\n\n\"Another text, called The Acts of Paul, describes Paul travelling with a\ncompanion called Thecla -- a woman who conducted babtisms.\" \n\nThe authors cite Barstone, W., The Other Bible, HarperCollins, 1984.\n\nI found 2 non-botanical \"Thec(k)las\" on the web that may be of interest:\nTHEKLA (f) \"glory of God\" from the Greek elements theos meaning \"god\" and\nkleos meaning \"glory\". Saint Thekla was supposedly the first female martyr\n(1st century). \nThecla (St.), styled in Greek martyrologies the proto-martyress, as St.\nStephen is the proto-martyr. All that is known of her is from a book\ncalled the Periods, or Acts of Paul and Theela, pronounced apocryphal by\nPope Gelasius, and unhappily lost. According to the legend, Thecla was\nborn of a noble family in Iconium, and was converted by the preaching of\nSt. Paul.\n\nFor what its worth, The Jesus Mysteries is the best of the \"searching for\nthe historical Jesus\" books I've ever come across. The \"customer reviews\"\nat the Amazon site below are, to say the the least, spirited, n.p.i.\n\nhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/102-7300973-2624959\n\ntom urash"
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