The instinct to survive was often expressed through fertility religions.This was the significance of the
Golden Calf.This idol was a fertility god.The epic incident is narrated in Exodus 32.
Indeed, the word katzaf, anger, serves as an organizing key word for the section, appearing in a generic opening verse (9:7), in the verse which introduces the longer first example, the
Golden Calf (in 9:8, introducing 9:8-21), and introducing a closing verse which presents a short undeveloped list of other examples (9:22-24, speaking about Taberah, Massah, the Graves of the Desire and the sin of the spies).
Robinson who strutted about in full gangster mode; the Robinson character (no, such is not in the Bible) was the genius promoter of the
golden calf, while Moses (aka Charlton Heston) was busy talking to God.
Sadly, Adoration of the
Golden Calf is missing from "rate Britain's survey of iconoclasm.
The
golden calf was not cited by William Jennings Bryan at the Democratic National Convention in 1896 when he employed other biblical imagery to condemn the gold standard in support of bimetallism.
From the "
golden calf" incident on Mount Sinai to King Solomon's polygamous polytheisms to "Babylon the great"; the dominant current in the Semitic Scriptures is a constant resistance to monotheism and its "unifying" promises.
Scholars of the Old Testament explore the Pentateuch and history, prophets, poetry from such perspectives as images of God and creation in Genesis 1-2, the Passover in Exodus and Deuteronomy, Judah as Israel in eight-century prophecy, reading Zechariah 11 in the light of Jeremiah, the
golden calf in the Psalms, and theology and hope in Lamentations.
Accolades include being named Australian Equities (Small Cap) Fund Manager of the Year at the May 2010 Money Management/Lonsec Fund Awards and winning the
Golden Calf Award for Best Emerging Fund Manager at the October 2009 Australian Fund Manager Awards.
His 2006 film Paradise Now, about two Palestinian men preparing for a suicide attack in Tel Aviv, won the Golden Globe for best foreign language film in 2006, won the
Golden Calf for best Dutch film, and was nominated for an Academy Award for best foreign language film.
Thus it invites the turn to some
golden calf. In National Socialism Heidegger was to find such a
golden calf.
Here the alternative is to "desire evil." The phrase gives Paul a chance to review ancient history as an "example." That memory includes the
golden calf (Exodus 32; 1 Corinthians 10:7-8) and murmuring in the wilderness (Numbers 21:4-6; 1 Corinthians 10:9).
She puts the Russian Ballet onto the same plane as the London nightclub "The Cave of the
Golden Calf." Diaghilev's Russian Ballet was a major Modernist phenomenon with a broad, non-parochial impact in England, Europe, and the United States.