Description: AcknowledgmentsGeneral Introduction1. Hebrew Bible Accounts 2. Jewish Postbiblical Interpretations (200s BCE-200 CE)3. Rabbinic Interpretations (200-600s CE)4. Early Christian Interpretations (50-450 CE) New Testament (c. 50-150 CE) Extracanonical Sources Church Fathers5. Medieval Readings: Muslim, Jewish, and Christian (600-1500 CE) Islam The Qur'an (c. 610-632) Muslim Interpretations Judaism Midrashic Themes Christianity6. Interpretations from the Protestant Reformation (1517-1700 CE)7. Societal Applications in the United States (1800s CE) Antebellum Debates on Household Hierarchies Women Make the Case for Equality New Religious Movements on Gender Relations8. Twentieth Century Readings: The Debates Continue Hierarchical Interpretations Egalitarian InterpretationsAppendix: The Preadamite Theory and the Christian Identity Movement: Race and Genesis 1-3 at the Turn of the MillenniumIndex

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