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  • From: "Walter R. Mattfeld" <mattfeld12 AT charter.net>
  • To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] The Golden Calf & the Hathor Cult of Sinai ?
  • Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 13:09:03 -0400

A brief article (below) attempts to identify certain aspects of the Cult of Hathor, patron goddess of Egyptian and Asiatic miners in the southern Sinai at Serabit el Khadim, as possibly being behind the notion of Moses' pulverizing the Golden Calf into dust, placing this dust into water and then making Israel "drink" it.

http://www.bibleorigins.net/GoldenCalfHathorReliefs.html

some "related" articles :

http://www.bibleorigins.net/EgyptianOriginsGoldenCalf.html

http://www.bibleorigins.net/ShatteredProtoSinaitictablet.html

Regards, Walter

Walter Reinhold Warttig Mattfeld y de la Torre, M.A. Ed.

mattfeld12 AT charter.net

www.bibleorigins.net





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