Many surviving versions of the Acts of Paul and Thecla in Greek, and some in Coptic, as well as references to the work among Church fathers show that it was widely disseminated. Jerome recounts the information from Tertullian, and on account of his exactitude in reporting on chronology, some scholars regard the text a 1st-century creation. Eugenia of Rome in the reign of Commodus (180–192) is reported in the Acts of her martyrdom to have taken Thecla as her model after reading the text, prior to its disapproval by Tertullian. 190), who says that a presbyter from Asia wrote the History of Paul and Thecla, and was deposed after confessing that he wrote it. It is attested no earlier than Tertullian, De baptismo 17:5 (c. It is one of the writings of the New Testament apocrypha. Goodspeed called it a " religious romance" –of Paul the Apostle's influence on a young virgin named Thecla. The Acts of Paul and Thecla ( Acta Pauli et Theclae) is an apocryphal story– Edgar J.
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