This superb collection will be an ideal textbook for undergraduate and seminary courses on the history of early Christian women. Both students and scholars will appreciate the lucid overviews of the results of over two decades of intensive feminist research on early Christian women. The authors present their material honestly and fairly -- without the apologetic tendencies that characterize some Christian treatments of women in the New Testament. The attention to the Jewish women and other neighbors of early Christian women continues the valuable interreligious model pioneered by Kramer in her earlier works.