text was saying to its audience. To put this more bluntly in the context of our own book, this text is far more about Adam and Eve as Israel than about the historical, biological, and genetic Adam and Eve. Inherent to Israel’s calling, as is made clear in Genesis 12:3, is that Israel is to be a blessing to “all peoples on earth.” Israel’s calling, if we tie together Genesis 1 and Genesis 12, is to image God in the world before the nations in order to mediate God’s presence, God’s redemption, and