Thisbrilliant scholarly treatise succeeds in bringing to our consciousness women who played an important role in the origins of Christianity."

Recognized as a landmark in biblical literature, this paperback volume is the work of women scholars from around the world under the leadership of Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza. They look at the scriptures with "different eyes", and offer knowledge and insight that are timely as well as timeless.

This leading feminist theologian offers an exciting introduction to a most creative field of biblical interpretation which the author says is best understood as the search for Divine Wisdom. She offers a review of the art that is not merely informative, but liberating. Challenging mainstream hermeneutic strategies she empowers us to think critically and enter creatively into a life-transforming journey.

These essays represent key issues in feminist theology and the feminist religious movementmilestones in the attempts of Christian feminists to reclain their spiritual authority, define biblical religion and the Christian church, and to articulate a feminist religious vision of justice and liberation."

This work seeks to interpret the rhetorics and politics of meaning which have compelled the proliferation of books and articles about the historical Jesus.