Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Banyai AT t-online.de (Michael Banyai)]

Peter, it´s very fine that you reorder or do not reorder the text, but what 
sense does the divine sentence at the end of the golden calf episode have for 
you? 

It is hardly to be understood as an interdiction to the Israelites to 
generally wear gold, since this was the most popular way one transported in 
high antiquity hard currency, before the invention of coins.

Should the Israelites have invented coins "avant la lettre"? Or did they use 
paper money? Or they bought everything on credit till the Lydians invented 
the coins?

I leave the lough on my side.

And not for the last: is this divine order perfectly in tune with Aarons 
command, but only in the wrong context. Should we suppose ad absurdum that in 
the antique one didn´t took on an utmost important question like the creation 
of a god´s statue prophetic advice? 

You are expecting more from my imagination than I do from your conservative 
text analysis. 

So if they despite all consulted a prophet, whose god´s sentence one would 
have requested? Not of Jahweh to whom they have pilgrimed?

So I see, we should better leave major questions unanswered even if this is 
against our rationale.


Best regards,

Bányai Michael

Stuttgart