Why should an Androginos not become an enslaved Hebrew? Tannaitic reasoning about the Androginos within the Roman world / Bernadette J. Brooten -- Because of her we all die: Eve in early Jewish and early Christian reception / Sara Parks -- The Feminine as an intellectual category in Gnosticism: proposing a Methodological framework / Lavinia Cerioni.
Summary
"This volume examines questions concerning the construction of gender and identity in the earliest days of what is now Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Methodologically explicit, the contributions analyze textual and material sources related to these religious traditions in their cultural contexts"--