This slim volume has several things to recommend it: (1) it includes the whole church - Eastern and Western as well as "heretical" branches such as the Gnostics and Montanists. (2) it includes items for which scholarly arguments have been made for a female author even if those arguments are speculative e.g. the author of the Letter to the Hebrews. This includes canonical and apocryphal works. (3) it includes a wide variety of languages e.g. the entries for Anna Comnena include English, French, Greek, Polish and Russian.

Its most annoying feature? Enticing me with wonderful headings such as Armenian hymnographers ... and showing no English entries. I hope that the book quickly requires updating as scholars uncover additional texts and make available more of the materials in English.