High-resolution photography at the turquoise mines of Serabit el-Khadem in Egypt’s south-central Sinai Peninsula highlighted ...

Some of them accepted the golden calf as their god. Moses’s brother Aaron , who acted as their leader in Moses’s absence, was grieved and spoke up: “0 my people! You have been deceived.

The Golden Calf, in other words, is the anti-Akedah. In case the parallels are still in doubt, Moses’ prayer makes the connection explicit. “Remember Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,” he entreats God.

Moses, outraged by the sight of a golden calf erected by the Hebrews as a deity, smashed the stone tablets. He apparently felt that the Jews were undeserving of them, and that it would be ...

If the president knew the story of the golden calf, constructed by Aaron while Moses was on Mount Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments from God, one would assume he’d think twice before ...

We Who Wrestle With God by Jordan Peterson, out on November 18.While Moses is on the mountaintop communing with God—a ...

To empower eucharistic devotion, look to the golden calves. No, not the golden calves installed by Jeroboam in 1 Kings 12:26-30.And definitely not the golden calf at Sinai — which Aaron created ...

Ancient Religion of Shamanism Flourishing To-Day; Older Than Judaism, It Is Practiced Now as It Was When Moses Eroke the Golden Calf. Share full article. July 17, 1904.