English summary: God created man male and female ("Gen 1: 27"). In this volume, scholars of eight European countries and around the Mediterranean specialized in different fields of research such as Bible, Christian Theology, Jewish Studies, Islamic Studies, Church History, Religious Law, Comparative Religious Studies, Jewish Philosophy and Hebrew Literature explore the reception history of this basic expression of biblical anthropology as mirrored in the New Testament, the Talmud, the Quran and cabbalistic literature. Taking into account the changing juridical and social contexts in which...