Aageson, James, 169n35 Abraham, Nicolas, 180n103 Acocella, Joan, 151–52, 155 Acts of Paul and Thecla, 8, 168–69n34 Adam: Clement and bodily sexual differences between Adam and Eve, 61–62, 64; Irenaeus and valorization of virgin earth, 107–10, 112–14, 122–23, 204n44, 205nn45–46, 50; and On the Origin of the World, 79–81, 87– 93, 195–96n33; Tertullian and union of body and soul at Adam’s creation, 131–32, 212n35 Adams, J. N., 215n99 Adversus haereses (Irenaeus of Lyons), 108, 110, 112–13 de Aldama, José Antonio, 118 de Andia, Ysabel, 203n30 androgyny: ancient (“myth of the primal androgyne”), 6–8, 31–32, 85, 166n22, 168–69n34; Aristophanes’ tale in Plato’s Symposium, 178n94, 179–80n101; Boyarin and, 7, 8, 167n30, 168–69n34, 178n94, 188n6; Clement and, 51–55, 72, 188–89n6; dominical saying attributed to Jesus, 32, 36–37, 184n21; and Eve of Life, 83–86, 89–92; Galatians 3.28 baptismal formula, 6–8, 167nn28, 30; and Genesis accounts of human creation, 20–21, 178n94; Gospel of Philip, 46–47; masculinist presuppositions, 6–8, 21, 166n22, 168–69n34, 179–80n101; and Paul’s Adam-Christ typology, 5–8, 164nn15–16, 165n19, 166nn20, 22, 167nn28, 30, 168–69n34 Apocryphon of John, 78, 82, 88, 91, 177n88, 200n96 Badiou, Alain, 1–3, 163n4 Barth, Karl, 171n43 Beattie, Tina, 101–2, 126, 138, 147, 202n22, 203n26, 210n13 Beauvoir, Simone de, 171–72n52 Behr, John, 51, 65, 105–7, 120–21, 204–5n45, 205n50 Bethge, Hans-Gebhard, 78, 194n3 Book of Jubilees, 178n93 Børreson, Kari, 52, 53, 56–57 Bouteneff, Peter, 60 Boyarin, Daniel, 49, 50; on Genesis accounts of human creation, 20; and Paul in 1 Corinthians and Galatians, 6, 167n30; and primal androgyne, 7, 8, 167n30, 168–69n34, 178n94, 188n6 Briggs, Sheila, 164n15 Brown, Peter, 40, 65, 112, 204n34 Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen, 37–38, 44–47, 184n31 Buell, Denise, 52–53, 63–64 Burrus, Virginia, 18, 128, 137, 150, 177n83 Butler, Judith: on body and norm, 5, 164n13; on ethical failures and recognition of the other, 154, 155; on language and body, 201n2; on origin stories, 77; and sex/gender distinction, 14, 16, 49, 173n56, 173n63; and sexual difference, 1, 16, 19 Bynum, Carolyn Walker, 133, 134, 212n43 Caputo, John, 2 Castelli, Elizabeth, 114–15, 164n15 Certeau, Michel de, 167n32 Cixous, Hélène, 151 Clark, Elizabeth, 173n60 Clark, Gillian, 111 2 Clement, 32, 36 Clement of Alexandria: on bodily and social implications of sexual difference, 63–64; on bodily sexual differences between Adam and Eve, 61–62, 64; on cultivation of the soul through the body, 68–69, 192n63; on dangers of desire and selfI n d e x 244 Index Clement of Alexandria (cont.) control, 61, 65–67; on desire (epithymia) and the feminine, 50, 51–74, 153; disjunctive interpretation of image and likeness, 81; displacement of Eve from creation narrative , 54, 57, 60–61, 70–71, 73; dominical saying and, 36–37, 184n24; eschatological androgyny and eradication of sexual difference , 51–55, 72, 188–89n6; the female and the imago Dei, 52, 67–68; feminist scholarship on, 51–53; first human and sexual difference, 55–57, 70; and Gospel of the Egyptians, 36–37, 59, 184n24; and indeterminacy /externalization of desire, 54–55, 70–72, 193nn75–76; and Middle Platonism , 192n63; and Pauline problematic, 51–53, 57, 73–74, 153; on pre-fall sexual difference , 54, 61–69, 71–73; problem of autonomous masculine, 54–55, 71–72, 73–74; on procreation, birth, childbearing, marriage , 64–65, 68; Protrepticus 11 narrative, 53–61, 70–74; retelling of Genesis creation story, 54, 55–64, 70–71; on women’s clothing and veiling, 66, 192n53 Colossians, 168n33 Conway, Colleen, 18 1 Corinthians, Paul on sexual difference in, 5–8, 10–12, 164nn15–16, 166n22, 167n30; Genesis creation narrative and, 11, 171n45; interpolation theory, 6, 164–65n16; and Irenaeus’s valorization of virgin earth, 107–9; marriage relationship and, 5–6, 164n15; patriarchal perspective and, 5–6, 164–65n16; physical/spiritual bodies and eschatological body of Christ, 10–12; and Tertullian’s contrary operation, 136; and Tertullian’s valorization of virginity, 140–41; and tripartite anthropology of On the Origin of the World, 86–88, 197n64; and veiling of women, 141 D’Angelo, Mary Rose, 85, 125, 195–96n33, 215n102 Daniel-Hughes, Carly, 127–28, 131–33 Davies, Stevan, 39, 184n34 Davis, Colin, 180n103 De anima (Tertullian of Carthage), 130, 132 De carne Christi (Tertullian of Carthage), 129...