The selections range widely from early postbiblical interpretations in the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha to the Qur'an, from Thomas Aquinas to medieval Jewish commentaries, from Christian texts to 19th-century antebellum slavery writings, and on to pieces written especially for this volume.

AcknowledgmentsGeneral Introduction1. Hebrew Bible Accounts2. 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 SourcesChurch Fathers5. Medieval Readings: Muslim, Jewish, and Christian (600-1500 CE)IslamThe Qur'an (c. 610-632)Muslim InterpretationsJudaismMidrashic ThemesChristianity6. Interpretations from the Protestant Reformation (1517-1700 CE)7. Societal Applications in the United States (1800s CE)Antebellum Debates on Household HierarchiesWomen Make the Case for EqualityNew Religious Movements on Gender Relations8. Twentieth Century Readings: The Debates ContinueHierarchical InterpretationsEgalitarian InterpretationsAppendix: The Preadamite Theory and the Christian Identity Movement: Race and Genesis 1-3 at the Turn of the MillenniumIndex