Talk:Golden calf

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thread_title: [Untitled]

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"It is also not clear why it might be involved with bringing the people up from Egypt"
It's not clear because it wasn't involved. It's clear from the episode development that Aaron was making it up from his lack of trust on Moses after the later delayed to go back.
Should not the fact that the calf was seen as an image of Yahweh in the northern kingdom be mentioned?--Rob117 03:31, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  tags 

message: This article is messy, outdated, and from a scientific point of view not good at all. I needs to be thorougly rewritten from scratch!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nezak (talk • contribs) 19:49, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: That would be original research, not allowed here. Also, it says he "burned the high place", not the calf, and doesn't say the gold dissolved in the water, simply that it was scattered on it. --tjstrf talk 00:20, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scientific Accuracy 

message: Quote from the section "Aaron's statement", in the second paragraph:
According to Exodus 32:4 the golden calf is made and Aaron says "This is your god (singular) O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.
According to the Interlinear Scripture Analyser available from http://www.scripture4all.org/ the original Hebrew for the second half of the verse reads through transliteration:
"and·they-are-saying these Elohim-of·you Israel who they-brought-up·you from·land-of Egypt".
Assuming this transliteration is correct, there are two problems with the quotation of the cited verse.  First that Aaron (alone?) made the statement and second that the use of the word god (Elohim) was in a singular context.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.224.129.156 (talk) 23:52, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biblical Inaccuracy 

message: Of what is the following text, moved here, an encyclopedia-worthy report?Wetman (talk) 03:54, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Flight of personal fancy?

message: What do the letters E and J stand for? I think it would be clearer if the entire words/ names were spelled out (although I didn't read the article thoroughly). 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 12:39, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Abbreviations

message: The Old testament is also an important piece for Christianity.
The Old testament and new testament go together very nice like. You will find, if you read the whole thing, that Jesus taught from the old testament, and that the prophets prophesied about Jesus. Moses even taught about Jesus.
--HolyandClean (talk) 17:22, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  What about Christianity? 

message: Tagged for tone, as the section is poorly written. I don't have a Quran to reference, so I'm avoiding reworking this section. Also, no appropriate citations.
Woodega (talk) 21:20, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quranic Version

message: The section "Criticism and interpretation" relies primarily on one source: A Brief Introduction to the Old Testament: The Hebrew Bible in its Context by M. Coogan (Oxford University Press, 2009). The citation also refers to a single page, which it should not do.
I don't dispute the inclusion of this view at all, but the section does appear to be too reliant on one scholar's view. The subject matter must have other interpretations and the article would benefit from their inclusion. I would have also liked to see a discussion of the Hebrew words relating to the plurality of "gods" and the word translated as "LORD." Roches (talk) 07:09, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  /* Criticism and interpretation */ Relies heavily on Coogan; see talk page. 

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message: I've restored the mention, however I don't really think it belongs on this article:
#this is a flash-in-the-pan kind of story that I'm sure almost everyone has forgotten about even though it happened earlier this year ("People criticized Trump/GOP for something online" isn't much of a story)
#the sources, while reliable, are all fairly low-grade (besides maybe Vox)
If this were a common metaphor employed to describe Republican attitudes toward Trump outside of this one incident, I might view it differently. However, all things considered I don't think it's worth including here.--Ermenrich (talk) 20:07, 12 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trump and the Golden Calf