Musgrave Museum

George Musgrave's interest in St Paul started fifty years ago, and for the past twenty years he has been researching the actual routes taken by the Apostle. During the course of this research, he came across clues which led him to believe that there was much more truth than formerly known about the relationship between Paul and Thekla, as referred to in the first century Apocryphal story. As a result of his findings, he believes new light can now be shed on Paul's journeys in Galatia, with particular reference to the "thorn in the flesh", the companions of Paul, facts of chronology, the authorship of the early part of the Acts of the Apostles, and the struggles in Paul's personal life revealed in the Letter to the Galatians and elsewhere. In Paul & Thekla, the reader is offered two books for the price of one; the first a story of a woman who fell in love with a voice. She heard Paul speaking and knew that she had to meet this man. She was not to know that that love would take her into a new life, into a new belief, and into adventures that were to remain in the memories of future generations of men and women. The book seeks to reconstruct what actually happened in Galatia, getting to the very heart of the Apostle as he grapples with relation¬ships, understanding the psychology behind the decisions he had to make, and perhaps putting a new emphasis on Paul's attitude to women. The second section, the "Research", analyses the evidence, describes the clues and the adventures experienced in following them up, believing that some of the deductions are new and of special interest to New Testament researchers. The research flows like a detective story — which it is. The author believes that Paul's relationship with Thekla is far more significant than has been so far realised, having an influence both on events recorded in the Acts of the Apostles and issues mentioned in the Epistles.

The price is £9.75 for hardback copy and £6.50 for paperback.