If what they had wanted was a replacement for God, Aaron would never have gone along and made the calf. But Aaron was a practical priest, selected from the first to be a negotiator and mediator.

Damien Hirst’s “The Golden Calf,” 2008, an actual calf decorated in 18-karat gold and preserved in a formaldehyde solution, was sold at a Sotheby’s auction for $18.6 million.

The Golden Calf. A Novel. Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov. Translated from the Russian. by Konstantin Gurevich. and Helen Anderson. Open Letter: 336 pp., $15.95 paper.

Rabbi Yehudah Halevi suggests that in the sin of the golden calf, “The people did not intend to give up their allegiance to God” in violation of the first of the Ten Declarations. Rather, they ...

Home Local News Modern correlations to Golden Calf cited This is French artist Nicolas Poussin’s depiction of the Israelites’ “Adoration of the Golden Calf.” Poussin lived from 1594-1665.

The golden calf is believed to have been the central object of worship for the Canaanites for 1,000 years or longer. A verse in the Old Testament book of Hosea, 13:1, ...