Books by Amy Levine

The ninth volume in this series deals with the second part of Luke''s narrative: the Acts of the Apostles. In this diverse collection, Janice Capel Anderson, James Arlandson, Virginia Burrus, Karen Torjesen, Beverly Gavanta, Musimbi Kanyoro, Dennis MacDonald, Shelly Matthews, Todd Penner, Caroline Vander Stichele, Robert Price, Barbara Reid, Scott Spencer, Jeffrey Staley, and Kathy Chambers utilize a variety of approaches to address issues of ethnicity and class, economic and social status, speech and silence, comedy and tragedy, construction of masculinity, mission and post-colonial response, literary influences both behind and in front of the text.

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.

This successor to the "Feminist Companion to the Bible" brings together the new and classical studies of the New Testament and early Christian literary corpus from the whole range of feminist perspectives now available.

This third volume in the "feminist companions" series deals with Lukan themes in feminist perspectives. The 14 essays cover a range of issues, including imperial masculinity, Mary and asceticism, Martha in the kitchen and reading Luke 15 with Arab-Christian women.

This is a unique ethnographic study of the practical, theoretical, methodological, ethical and social dimensions of some key non-governmental organisations (NGOs), non-profit organisations (NPOs), and think tanks in Seoul during Roh Moo Hyun's tumultuous presidency (2003-8). -- .

The seventh volume of this companion series is devoted to the writings ascribed to Paul but widely thought not to be genuinely from the Apostle. These are of particular importance in showing how Paul's authority was exploited in the early Church.