In 1 Corinthians 11:2-16, Paul establishes a hierarchical relationship between God, Christ, man and woman. In order to substantiate this assertion, he refers to the first two chapters of the Book of Genesis. This paper analyses this aetiological attempt at justification, demonstrating how Paul interprets Genesis 1 and 2 by describing the reading and writing strategies with the help of fan fiction theory. Fan fiction represents the interface between reception and production. Fan fiction theory provides the means to describe strategies of intertextuality. Through a hermeneutics of "prod-using", premises of reception become apparent that are only implicitly reflected in text production. This analysis demonstrates that Paul identifies a chronology of creation in Genesis 2, which he subsequently incorporates into Genesis 1:26f. From this, he derives a general, timeless hierarchy between man and woman. The incorporation of Psalm 8:6 as a further co-text supports this interpretation and also adds Christ and the angels as mediators of creation to the hierarchy. The paper's objective is to undertake a precise analysis of the argumentation in order to reveal the unstated rules of inference. It is argued that 1 Cor 11:2-16 represents a kind of early creation order theology that cannot be derived from Gen 1+2 without further premises.