Interpretations on the role of women in the life of the church often centre around in terpretations of Paul’s letters. Since Paul mentions creation in these controversial texts, some interpreters claim that a woman’s supportive (i.e., not leading) role is embedded in the “Creation Order” itself. I propose that this conclusion is problematic because of a faulty reading of Paul back into Genesis, without also reading Genesis into Paul. Relating Heimerdinger’s work on foregrounding in Hebrew narrative to poetic shifts in Genesis 1–3, I propose that this text emphasises the following matters: men and women are both made in the image of God and thereby equally endowed with authority, men and women have distinctions but find their fulfilment in interdependence and uni ty, and the Fall brings about curses that disrupt this partnership but does not reverse it forever. I conduct a re-reading of key Pauline texts (1 Cor. 11:7–12, Eph. 5:21–33, 1 Tim. 2:11–15) and propose some interpretive parameters based on the anthropological claims from Genesis 1–3. Reading Genesis 1–3 and Paul together results in a vision for men and women in which shared leadership and interdependence are the guiding par adigms. The article is available in English language in the second half of this document.