indicates in unmistakeable terms that all human relationships with the rest of creation are to be determined by one’s rule over the animal world. Language preserves something of this when it uses “dominion” in a transferred sense to describe mastery; one masters an art or a craft or a language. Strictly speaking what is meant is a relationship to a living being. [1:27b*] “Male and female he created them.” This pair of words is typical of the language of P. It occurs with reference to humans in Lev