21: Biblerella (The Acts of Paul and Thecla)

Apocrypals

Chris Sims

Comedy, History

4.9 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2018

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Watch out, Theophiloi -- we've got some high voltage coming your way as we dive into the apocryphal Acts of Paul and Thecla. For the first time, we have a real female protagonist who has agency... to the extreme. Join us for an astounding piece of Biblical fanfic, a discussion of why Thecla was left out of the canon (hint: thousands of years of entrenched misogyny), and get ready to be thirsty for virtue when you meet your new favorite semi-Biblical figure. Plus: a very good story about a very large lion.

Topics of discussion: "The Lost Scriptures" by Bart Ehrman, a brief divergence into Santa Claus Canon, the real Patron Saint of the Internet, St. Isadore of Seville, Tertullian, Constantine (not that one) and the Hell Bible's version of Corinthians, various apocalypses, Paul's Bulk and Skull, AO1, a stack of virginity pledges reaching to the ceiling of the Flavian Amphitheater, Adrian Toomes, the hat guy, Holy Musk, Quentin Beck, man-eating seals, a surprising substance to see at a beheading, and a litany of podcast recs.

Hymnal: "Danger! High Voltage!" by Electric Six

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Transcript

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0:00.0	The living God, the God of vengeance, the jealous God, the God who stands in need of nothing.
0:05.9	This God has sent me to provide people with salvation by dragging them away from corruption and impurity
0:10.9	and every pleasure and death that they may no longer sin.
0:15.3	The Acts of Thecla, Chapter 17.
0:21.6	It's my desire. It's my desire. It's my desire. It's my desire.
0:22.6	It's my desire.
0:23.6	Don't you want to know how we keep starting fires.
0:26.6	It's my desire.
0:28.6	It's my desire.
0:29.6	It's my desire.
0:31.6	Danger, danger.
0:33.6	Danger.
0:34.6	High voltage.
0:36.6	When we touch. when we cheers.
0:40.3	Danger, danger, high voltage.
0:44.3	Hello, friends and neighbors, and welcome to Apocrypal's.
0:47.3	It's the podcast where two nonbelievers read through the Bible, and we try not to be jerks about it.
0:52.3	My name is Chris Sims, and with me as always is
0:54.4	the other set of footprints Benito Serino. Benito, how are you today? Very good, Chris. How are you
0:59.4	doing? I'm all right. Yeah. We got a pretty good one today, I think. I feel like. I did not read
1:06.0	this in the order in which we are discussing it. Yeah, that's okay. So I will say that I started out being a little disappointed by how boring it was,
1:16.1	and then it finished up pretty strong.
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