A Feminist Companion to Patristic Literature (Feminist Companion to the New Testament and Early Christian Writings) - Softcover

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.

Maria Mayo Robbins is a doctoral candidate in religious studies at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

"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)

“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

"I found the work readable, stimulating, and informative" Journal for the Study for the New Testament Booklist 2009 (Sanford Lakoff Journal for the Study of the New Testament)