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| rdfs:comment | - (Ex. 32:4,8; Deut. 9:16; Neh. 9:18). This was a molten image of a calf which the idolatrous Israelites formed at Sinai. This symbol was borrowed from the custom of the Egyptians. It was destroyed at the command of Moses (Ex. 32:20).
- The Golden Calf was an idol built by Aaron for the Hebrew Israelites after they had left Egypt and formed their own independent nation. The Golden Calf followed after the patterns and pantheon of Egypt, because it was not the worship of the true God, but worship of false gods manifested in an animal-shaped idol. It was built by Aaron by the request of the Israelite community after their leader, Moses had not returned from a prolonged communication with God on Mount Horeb.
- In Hebrew, the incident is known as ḥēṭ’ ha‘ēggel (חֵטְא הַעֵגֶּל) or "The Sin of the Calf". It is first mentioned in Exodus 32:4 (Taha 20.83 in the Quran). In Egypt, whence the Hebrews had recently come, the Apis Bull was the comparable object of worship, which the Hebrews were reviving in the wilderness. Among the Egyptians' and Hebrews' neighbors in the Ancient Near East and in the Aegean, the Aurochs, the wild bull, was widely worshipped, often as the Lunar Bull and as the creature of El. Its Minoan manifestation survived as the Cretan Bull of Greek myth.
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| abstract | - (Ex. 32:4,8; Deut. 9:16; Neh. 9:18). This was a molten image of a calf which the idolatrous Israelites formed at Sinai. This symbol was borrowed from the custom of the Egyptians. It was destroyed at the command of Moses (Ex. 32:20).
- The Golden Calf was an idol built by Aaron for the Hebrew Israelites after they had left Egypt and formed their own independent nation. The Golden Calf followed after the patterns and pantheon of Egypt, because it was not the worship of the true God, but worship of false gods manifested in an animal-shaped idol. It was built by Aaron by the request of the Israelite community after their leader, Moses had not returned from a prolonged communication with God on Mount Horeb.
- In Hebrew, the incident is known as ḥēṭ’ ha‘ēggel (חֵטְא הַעֵגֶּל) or "The Sin of the Calf". It is first mentioned in Exodus 32:4 (Taha 20.83 in the Quran). In Egypt, whence the Hebrews had recently come, the Apis Bull was the comparable object of worship, which the Hebrews were reviving in the wilderness. Among the Egyptians' and Hebrews' neighbors in the Ancient Near East and in the Aegean, the Aurochs, the wild bull, was widely worshipped, often as the Lunar Bull and as the creature of El. Its Minoan manifestation survived as the Cretan Bull of Greek myth.
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