Golden calf traditions in early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam / edited by Eric F. Mason, Edmondo F. Lupieri.

• TeilnehmendeR: Mason, Eric Farrel,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Themes in Biblical Narrative 23.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (349 pages).

The seventeen studies in Golden Calf Traditions in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam explore the biblical origins of the golden calf story in Exodus, Deuteronomy, and 1 Kings, as well as its reception in a variety of sources: Hebrew Scriptures (Hosea, Jeremiah, Psalms, Nehemiah), Second Temple Judaism (Animal Apocalypse, Pseudo-Philo, Philo, Josephus), rabbinic Judaism, the New Testament (Acts, Paul, Hebrews, Revelation) and early Christianity (among Greek, Latin, and Syriac writers), as well as the Qur’an and Islamic literature. Expert contributors explore how each ancient author engaged with the calf traditions—whether explicitly, implicitly, or by clearly and consciously avoiding them—and elucidate how the story was used both negatively and positively for didactic, allegorical, polemical, and even apologetic purposes.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Preface and Acknowledgments / Eric F. Mason and Edmondo F. Lupieri -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- The Calf Episodes in Exodus and Deuteronomy: A Study in Inner-Biblical Interpretation / Robert A. Di Vito -- The “Sin” of Jeroboam / Ralph W. Klein -- Do the Books of Hosea and Jeremiah Know of a Sinai/Horeb Golden Calf Story? / Pauline A. Viviano -- The Golden Calf in the Historical Recitals of Nehemiah 9 and Psalm 106 / Richard J. Bautch -- Did the Sheep Worship the Golden Calf? The Animal Apocalypse’s Reading of Exodus 32 / Daniel Assefa and Kelley Coblentz Bautch -- Philo of Alexandria’s Interpretations of the Episode of the Golden Calf / Thomas H. Tobin S.J. -- When Silence Is Golden: The Omission of the Golden Calf Story in Josephus / Gregory E. Sterling -- Leaders without Blemish: Pseudo-Philo’s Retelling of the Biblical Golden Calf Story / John C. Endres S.J. and Peter Claver Ajer -- Paul and the Calf: Texts, Tendencies, and Traditions / Alec J. Lucas -- “They Made a Calf”: Idolatry and Temple in Acts 7 / Joel B. Green -- Traces of the Golden Calf in the Epistle to the Hebrews / Eric F. Mason -- A Beast and a Woman in the Desert, or the Sin of Israel: A Typological Reflection / Edmondo Lupieri -- “A Good Argument to Penitents”: Sin and Forgiveness in Midrashic Interpretations of the Golden Calf / Devorah Schoenfeld -- Anti-Judaism and Pedagogy: Greek and Latin Patristic Interpretations of the Calf Incident / Wesley Dingman -- Justin Martyr and the Golden Calf: Ethnic Argumentation in the New Israel / Andrew Radde-Gallwitz -- The Incident of the Golden Calf in Pre-Islamic Syriac Authors / Andrew J. Hayes -- “A Calf, a Body that Lows”: The Golden Calf from Late Antiquity to Classical Islam / Michael E. Pregill.