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The Adoration of the Golden Calf – picture from the Hortus deliciarum of Herrad of Landsberg (12th century). According to the Torah and the Quran, the golden calf (Hebrew: עֵגֶל הַזָּהָב, romanized: ʿēḡel hazzāhāḇ) was a cult image made by the Israelites when Moses went up to Mount Sinai.
The people, impatient for Moses’ return, implore Aaron to make them a god. Aaron molds a golden calf and the people offer sacrifices, eat, drink, and dance. God tells Moses what the people have done, saying he will destroy them.
Aaron (Arabic: هارون, Hārūn) is mentioned in the Quran as a prophet of God. [100] The Quran praises Aaron repeatedly, calling him a "believing servant" [101] as well as one who was "guided" [102] and one of the "victors". [103] The Quran additionally denies the role of Aaron in the creation of the golden calf, attributing the action to ...
The longer portion that finishes Aaron's Rod was written by Lawrence in 1921. [1] The title refers to the rod of Aaron in the Old Testament, Moses' brother who built the Golden Calf in the desert for the worship of the Israelites. The rod, his divine symbol of authority and independence, finds its echo in the flute of Aaron Sisson.
It adds that Aaron tried his best to stop the worship of the Golden Calf, which was built not by Aaron but by a wicked man called the Samiri'. [ 12 ] [ failed verification ] Quran 20:85–95 When Moses returned from Mount Sinai, he rebuked Aaron for allowing the worship of the idol, to which Aaron pleaded with Moses to not blame him when he had ...
Some traditions say that the calf could also move, a property granted to it by the dust of the “horse of life”. [3] Other traditions suggest that Samiri made the sound himself, or that it was only the wind. [4] Still others say that the calf was formed by God himself, as a test for the Hebrew people. [5] Stories indicate that he was a ...
“Aaron and the Golden Calf in the Rhetoric of the Pentateuch.” Journal of Biblical Literature, volume 130, number 3 (fall 2011): pages 417–30. William G. Dever. The Lives of Ordinary People in Ancient Israel: When Archaeology and the Bible Intersect, pages 244. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2012. Herzfeld
Moses told the people "Aaron and Hur are with you; whosoever hath a cause, let him come near unto them." [2] However, only Aaron is mentioned in the later account of events during Moses' absence and the creation of the Golden Calf. Battle with the Amalekites, by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1860), representing Exodus 17:8–16.