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.