inseparable purpose is just not the same thing as a thing’s definition. An essential function of an automobile, for example, is to transport people, but that is not the definition of an automobile. The stubborn fact is that Genesis leaves the image and likeness of God undefined. Rather, what is key to Middleton’s case for the functional interpretation is his second reason for the consensus among OT scholars—namely, the ANE ideology of kings in Mesopotamia and Egypt that describes their function as