The Life and Miracles of Thekla

A meticulous scholarly study of a fifth-century hagiographic text that sits at the crossroads of classical Greek literature and early Christian devotion — for the right reader, this is genuinely valuable. It is entirely inaccessible to anyone outside academic Byzantine and patristics circles, and Johnson writes for that audience exclusively. If that is your world, the erudition here is real and the contribution is significant.