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CALF, THE GOLDEN

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 1004 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CAL-CAR
CALF, THE GOLDEN , a molten image made by the Israelites when Moses had ascended the
Mount
  of Yahweh to receive the Law (Ex. xxxii.). Alarmed at his lengthy absence the people clamoured for " gods " to lead them, and at the instigation of Aaron, they brought their jewelry and made the calf out of it. This was celebrated by a sacred festival, and it was only through the intervention of Moses that the people were saved from the wrath of Yahweh (cp. Dent. ix. 19 sqq.). Nevertheless 3000 of them fell at the hands of the
Levites
  who, in answer to the summons of Moses, declared themselves on the side of Yahweh. The origin of this particular form of
worship
  can scarcely be sought in Egypt; the
Apis
  which was worshipped there was a live
bull
 , and image-
worship
  was common among the Canaanites in connexion with the cult of Baal and Astarte (qq.v.). In early
Israel
  it was considered natural to worship Yahweh by means of images (cp. the story of Gideon, Judg. viii. 24 sqq.), and even to Moses himself was attributed the bronze-serpent whose cult at Jerusalem was destroyed in the time of Hezekiah (2 Kings xviii. 4, Num. xxi. 4-9). The condemnation which later writers, particularly those imbued with the spirit of the Deuteronomic reformation, pass upon all image-worship, is in harmony with the judgment upon Jeroboam for his innovations at Bethel and Dan (1 Kings xii. 28 sqq., xvi. 26, &c.). But neither Elijah nor Elisha raised a voice against the cult; then, as later, in the time of Amos, it was nominally Yahweh-worship, and Hosea is the first to regard it as the fundamental cause of
Israel
 's misery.
See further, W. R.
Smith
 , Prophets of Israel, pp. 175 sqq.; Kennedy, Hastings' Dict. Bib. i. 342; and HEBREW RELIGION.
. (S. A. C.)


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