REL 1004 Lecture : September 24 Notes
Document Summary
Moses gets called away for a conference. Narrative tells us he is having conference with god to discuss architectural details of mobile arc/cabinet where they"ll carry the 10 commandments (we know what"s happening but they don"t know) They"re in the dessert without a leader, not sure what he"s doing, so they: aaron asked for all jewelry gold and melted it down and made two. They have big party celebrating midst of god and the two calves. Goes up to his brother aaron and asked what is this? request aaron to make them a god golden calves: aaron said he threw gold in the fire and these calves came out. Three ideas: slavery ( avodah) becomes worship ( avodah, a permanent symbol of divine presence elders go up mountain most of way, moses goes to the top to be the closest to god.
