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Acts of Paul and Thecla
Scholars dispute whether the Acts of Paul was entirely the work of a single author, or possibly a collection of disparate acts and legends of the apostle. A number of these works have been transmitted separately, including the Acts of Paul and Thecla (The Second Act), 3 Corinthians (The Seventh Act), and the Martyrdom of Paul. It was composed in Greek, most likely in the 2nd century. In typical apocryphal fashion, the author(s) at points promote some alternative, hyper-legalistic soteriology—in the case of the Acts of Paul and Thecla, abstinence as a path to salvation. Some of the Acts are highly fragmentary.
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