Thanks for joining our study about the famous Golden Calf. A violent story recorded in Exodus 32 of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. A “bumper sticker” summation is: “You make God angry - you ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories ... Bible so against the making of the calf, if it was not an idol and did not violate any of the commandments? One reason is that the ...

So where did they go wrong? How could they have been so fragile to have been convinced to build a golden calf? The Bible tells us that after the Israelites make the golden calf, God tells Moses to ...

In the Bible, golden calves ... are referred to in the story of Aaron during the Exodus; in ancient Jerusalem`s rivalry with the northern, calf-worshiping Hebrew king Jeroboam; and in other ...

As we submerge ourselves into the story, we merge and almost become those ... Likewise, the Jews with the golden calf. Another basic problem with our over-identification with the characters ...

The story in the Bible recounts how the Golden Calf idol was created by the Israelites who waited for Moses to climb the mountain in order to talk to God. It has since been known as the “Sin of ...

In the Bible, the Golden Calf story ends with a furious Moses destroying the idol — dumping its ashes into water and forcing the Israelites to drink it as punishment. In theory, the voters in ...