| Acknowledgments | |
| General Introduction | |
| Hebrew Bible Accounts | |
| Introduction Selections and Commentary | |
| Genesis 1:1-2:4a | |
| Genesis 2:4b-3:24 | |
| Genesis 4:1-4:2 | |
| Genesis 5:1-5:5 | |
| Jewish Postbiblical Interpretations (200s BCE-200 CE) | |
| Introduction Apocrypha (Deuterocanon) and Pseudepigrapha | |
| 1 Enoch (c. 200s BCE) Sirach (c. 180 BCE) Jubilees (c. mid-100s BCE) Wisdom of Solomon (c. 30s BCE-100 CE) 2 Esdras (c. 100 CE) | |
| 2 Baruch (c. early 100s CE) Life of Adam and Eve (c. late 100s-400 CE) | |
| Jewish Philosophers and Historians Philo, Questions and Answers on Genesis (c. 20s-40s CE) | |
| Josephus, Jewish Antiquities (c. 90s CE) | |
| Rabbinic Interpretations (200-600s CE) | |
| Introduction Midrash Rabbah and Babylonian Talmud | |
| Themes on Humankind+s Creation | |
| Themes on the Disobedience | |
| Themes on Adam and Eve after Eden | |
| Themes on Humankind in the Post-Edenic World Targums | |
| Targum Onqelos to Genesis (c. 100s) | |
| Targum Pseudo-Jonathan: Genesis (pre 600) | |
| Early Christian Interpretations (50-450 CE) | |
| Introduction New Testament (c. 50-150 CE) | |
| Egalitarian+ Texts 1 Corinthians 15:21-22 | |
| Galatians 3:27-28 | |
| Ephesians 4:22-24 | |
| Colossians 3:9-11 | |
| Hierarchical+ Texts 1 Corinthians 11:3-12 2 | |
| Corinthians 11:2-6 | |
| Ephesians 5:21-6:9 1 | |
| Timothy 2:8-15 | |
| Extracanonical Sources | |
| The Gospel According to Thomas (c. 50-150) | |
| The Gospel According to Philip (pre 350) | |
| The Acts of Paul and Thecla (c. 100s) | |
| Church Fathers Theophilus, -Apology to Autolycus+ (late 100s) | |
| Anastasius Sinaita, Anagogicarum Contemplationum (c. 150-250) | |
| Tertullian, -On the Apparel of Women+ (c. 202) | |
| Origen, -Homilies on Genesis: 1 and 6+ (c. 240) | |
| Ambrose, -Paradise+ (c. 375) | |
| John Chrysostom, Homilies on Genesis (c. 386) | |
| Augustine, The Literal Meaning of Genesis (begun c. 401) | |
| Medieval Readings: Muslim, Jewish, and Christian (600-1500 CE) | |
| Introduction Islam | |
| The Qur+an (c. 610-632) | |
| Surah 2, The Cow: 2:29-38, 222-223, 228 | |
| Surah 4, Women: 4:1, 3, 34-36, 116-120, 128-130 | |
| Surah 7, The Heights: 7:19-27, 189-190 | |
| Surah 15, Al-Hijr: 15:26-45 | |
| Surah 20, T0 H0: 20:115-123 | |
| Surah 23, The Believers: 23:12-14 | |
| Surah 24, Light: 24:30-33 | |
| Surah 30, The Romans: 30:20-22 | |
| Surah 49, The Private Apartments: 49:13 | |
| Muslim Interpretations Al-Tabari, Commentary on the Qur+an (c. late 800s) | |
| Al-Kisa I, The Tales of the Prophets of al-KisaI (collected c. 1200) | |
| Ibn Al+ Arabi, The Bezels of Wisdom (c. 1200s) | |
| Judaism Midrashic Themes: The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan (c. 600-700s) | |
| Pirke de Rabbi Eliezer (c. 700-800s) | |
| Alphabet of Ben Sira (c. 700-900s) | |
| The Chronicle of Jerahmeel (c. 1300s) | |
| Rashi, Commentary on the Pentateuch (c. late 100s) | |
| Nahmanides, Commentary on the Torah (c. 1200s) | |
| Maimonides, Guide for the Perplexed (c. late 1100s) | |
| Isaac Kohen, Treatise on the Left Emanation (c. 1100s) | |
| The Zohar, Bereshit (c. late 1200s) | |
| Summa Theologiae (begun c. 1260) | |
| Letter of the God of Love (1399) | |
| Interpretations from the Protestant Reformation (1517-1700 CE) | |
| Introduction Balthasar Hubmaier, Freedom of the Will (1527) | |
| Lectures on Genesis (begun 1535) | |
| Commentaries on the First Book of Moses Called Genesis (c. 1555) | |
| Womens Speaking Justified, Proved and Allowed by the Scriptures (1666) | |
| Paradise Lost (1667) | |
| Societal Applications in the United States (1800s CE) | |
| Introduction Antebellum Debates on Household Hierarchies Proslavery and Antislavery Views Fred A. Ross, Slavery Ordained of God (1857) | |
| Howe, Slaveholding Not Sinful (1856) | |
| Bible Defence of Slavery (1851) | |
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