"This twelfth addition to the Feminist Companion to the New Testament and Early Christian Writings series examines a number of core Patristic texts and early Christian documents from a feminist perspective. Essays by ten contributors include discussions of early Christian depictions of martyrdom, exhortations to asceticism, biblical reinterpretation, art and architecture, philosophy, and prayer." -BookNotes, Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology, October 2008
Mention -New Testament Abstracts, Vol. 53 No. 1, 2009
"A very helpful collection, complete with a long bibliography and an index of subjects and names." International Review of Biblical Studies, vol. 54:2007/08
"All the essays are worth reading" Ecclesiastical History July 2009
"The ten essays in this volume offer a rich variety of perspectives from several generations of scholars... This is a very distinguished and helpful collection of essays in a single volume." Reviewed by Rebecca Lyman in Expository Times, September 2009.
Mention. Distinctive News of Women in Ministry. April 2010
"I found the work readable, stimulating, and informative" Journal for the Study for the New Testament Booklist 2009
- Ruth B. Edwards, Journal for the Study of the New Testament
Covering a wide selection of themes and texts, the authors primarily explore the “construction” of images, types and roles attributed to women, but without neglecting to include an important contextual reflection on the methods and perspectives of the contemporary feminist research work.
Revue des Livres
Barbara E. Bowe
'Many Women Have Been Empowered through God's Grace': Feminist Contradictions and Curiosities in Clement of Rome
Denise Kimber Buell
Ambiguous Legacy: A Feminist Commentary on Clement of Alexandria's Works
Virginia Burrus
Torture and Travail: Producing the Christian Martyr
Elizabeth Castelli
Virginity and its Meaning for Women's Sexuality in Early Christianity
Elizabeth A. Clark
Ideology, History and the Construction of 'Woman' in Late Ancient Christianity
Kathy L. Gaca
The Pentateuch or Plato: Two Competing Paradigms of Christian Sexual Morality
Robin M. Jensen
Mater Ecclesia and Fons Aeterna: The Church and Her Womb in Ancient Christian Tradition
Ross S. Kraemer
When Is A Text About a Woman a Text About a Woman: The Cases of Aseneth and Perpetua
Carolyn Osiek
The Patronage of Women in Early Christianity
Teresa M. Shaw
The Virgin Charioteer and the Bride of Christ: Gender and the Passions in Late Ancient Ethics and Early Christian Writings on Virginity