Feminist Companion to Patristic Literature

Amy-Jill Levine is the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies, Vanderbilt University Divinity School and Graduate Department of Religion, and director of the Carpenter Program in religion, gender and sexuality in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

• Barbara E. Bowe'Many Women Have Been Empowered through God's Grace': Feminist Contradictions and Curiosities in Clement of Rome Denise Kimber BuellAmbiguous Legacy: A Feminist Commentary on Clement of Alexandria's Works Virginia BurrusTorture and Travail: Producing the Christian Martyr Elizabeth CastelliVirginity and its Meaning for Women's Sexuality in Early Christianity Elizabeth A. ClarkIdeology, History and the Construction of 'Woman' in Late Ancient Christianity Kathy L. GacaThe Pentateuch or Plato: Two Competing Paradigms of Christian Sexual Morality Robin M. JensenMater Ecclesia and Fons Aeterna: The Church and Her Womb in Ancient Christian Tradition Ross S. KraemerWhen Is A Text About a Woman a Text About a Woman: The Cases of Aseneth and Perpetua Carolyn OsiekThe Patronage of Women in Early Christianity Teresa M. ShawThe Virgin Charioteer and the Bride of Christ: Gender and the Passions in Late Ancient Ethics and Early Christian Writings on Virginity

"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