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