Feminist Companion to the Catholic Epistles and Hebews

The eighth volume in this series continues the exploration of women's representations and roles constructions of gender and attitudes toward sexuality in the early church. Jim Aageson Judith Applegate Warren Carter Pamela Eisenbaum Ruth Hoppin Luke Timothy Johnson Catherine Clark Kroeger Magda Missett van de Weg John Elliott Betsy Bauman-Martin and Timothy Cargal tackle a variety of complex issues involving slavery prostitution widows church leadership suffering women's agency and Evangelical responses to the so-called texts of terror. This volume advances discussion on these often overlooked and misunderstood general letters.