Meaning - approximately - \\\\\\\'the first five books (pentateuch) of the creation (cosmogony)\\\\\\\', this was a hardback book and double vinyl album released in 1979. It was conceived, written and illustrated by Patrick Woodroffe, in collaboration with Dave Greenslade.

The story - and thus the artwork - within \\\\\\\'Pentateuch\\\\\\\' centres around the discovery of an abandoned spacecraft in orbit around Jupiter, and the project to decipher the ideograms in the pentateuch \\\\\\\'document\\\\\\\'. Most of the book is a retelling of the document, in much the same way as a modern translator might retell the contents of a Babylonian tablet or Egyptian papyrus scroll.

Greenslade contributes the 74 minutes of music as his second solo project, enlisting Phil Collins amongst others to help.

A CD reissue was released in 1994, achieving the awkward transfer of Woodroffe\\\\\\\'s 12\\\\\\\" x 12\\\\\\\" book into a 5\\\\\\\" square booklet with some success, though the impact of some of the artwork is lost through this.