Introduction Israel presented her revelation in terms of Law, Prophets, and Writings, the order in which her faith was informed. The Pentateuch—the Law—embraces the first five books of the Old Testament and contains the substance of Israel’s gospel. God, who created the world with a New Creation in ultimate view, to be achieved ideally by human cooperation, had given Israel a model in the Eden narrative of what the world was to be. Dominion, in terms of service to God’s creation, needed to be exercised