For Christian theologian Phyllis Trible Genesis 1:27 is the central biblical clue for how to
understand the whole of the biblical metanarrative: So God created
mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male
and female he created them.
While Muslim theologian Amina Wadud observes that in the Quranic version of the story the genders relate to God and themselves in God’s creating them from the same genderless soul. While both versions have slight nuance, both show the equality of the genders from the beginning of their creation...