Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- The Creation of Man and Woman in Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Traditions -- Pandora or the Creation of a Greek Eve -- The Creation of Man and Woman in Early Jewish Literature -- Endowed With Reason or Glued to the Senses: Philo's Thoughts on Adam and Eve -- Man, Woman, and the Angels in 1 Cor 11:2-16 -- Keeping Marriage Out of Paradise: The Creation of Man and Woman in Patristic Literature -- The Creation of the Human in Rabbinic Interpretation -- Eve and the Matriarchs: Aspects of Woman Typology in Genesis -- The Creation of Man and Woman in The Secret Book of John -- "Two of Far Nobler Shape": Milton's Re-creation of Eve and Adam -- The Creation of Eve and the Ambivalence Between the Sexes -- The Performance of Creation, Creation in Performance -- References to Ancient Texts.