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. The contributors 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. Contributors include: Jim Aageson, Concordia College, Michigan Judith Applegate, Seattle Warren Carter, Saint Paul School of Theology, Kansas City Pamela Eisenbaum, Illiff School of Theology, Denver, Ruth Hoppin, Daly City, California, Luke Timothy Johnson, Candler School of Theology at Emory University, Catherine Clark Kroeger, Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary, MA Magda Missett van de Weg, KatholiekeTheologische Universiteit, Utrecht Betsy J. Bauman-Martin, University of California at Riverside Timothy B. Cargill, Northwood Presbyterian Church, Silver Spring, Missouri.