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181 months ago

sarlata   asked this question:

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181 months ago

   wrote:

sacrilege/sacriligious worship of the Golden Calf

181 months ago

FSCDC   wrote:

Heresy of the Golden Calf / Veal

My comment:

I guess calf is even the better of both options.
But it is certainly the best option, as other translators have mentioned

My references:

I have studied medieval literature (and therefore also the Bible for references used in medieval literature) at the University of Cambridge.

181 months ago

FSCDC   wrote:

The worshipping of Mammon heresy

181 months ago

nathalie74c   wrote:

Heresy of The Golden Calf is the best answer

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181 months ago

Robert Tucker   wrote:

golden calf heresy

My comment:

Ex 32:1-35, This is the story of Moses and the Golden Calf incident. I will paraphrase instead of recounting this lengthy story. Moses came down from the mountain with the stone tablets (15) and found that his people had made for themselves a Golden Calf and they were worshiping it (19). They had become Heretics. Moses asked who was still loyal to the Lord and the Levites responded (26). Then Moses commanded the Levites to slay the ones who were not loyal to the Lord, and they did (27-29). This chapter is a clear message to ferret out Heretics from the midst of believers.
http://www.thecatholictreasurechest.com/inquis.htm

Comments by other colleagues on this answer:

181 months ago

Jennifer White   wrote:

Yes, that's right. http://michael-beals.blogspot.com/2011/02/can-you-go-home-again-making-mistakes.html

181 months ago

David Edwards Translation and Training   wrote:

the cult of the calf

My comment:

or the literal 'heresy' - it must be a (mocking) reference to the cult of the golden calf so the choice will depend on the exact tone (the degree of distance from the original formulation) required

181 months ago

Medilingua Hungarica   wrote:

heresy of the Golden Calf

My comment:

Il s'agit d'idolatrie du veau d'or (Exode des juifs de l'Égypte). Quand Moise revenait avec les deux tables de pierre contenant le Décalogue il trouvait les juifs en dansant autour d'un veau d'or .
From the Wikipaedia in English:
According to the Hebrew Bible, the golden calf (עֵגֶּל הַזָהָב ‘ēggel hazâhâḇ) was an idol (a cult image) made by Aaron to satisfy the Israelites during Moses' absence, when he went up to Mount Sinai. The calf was intended to be a physical representation of the God of Israel, and therefore was doubly wrong for involving Israel in idolatry and for ascribing physicality to God.

In Hebrew, the incident is known as ḥēṭ’ ha‘ēggel (חֵטְא הַעֵגֶּל) or "The Sin of the Calf". It is first mentioned in Exodus 32:4. Bull worship was common in many cultures. In Egypt, whence according to the Exodus narrative the Hebrews had recently come, the Apis Bull was a comparable object of worship, which some believe the Hebrews were reviving in the wilderness;[1] alternatively, some believe the God of Israel was associated with or pictured as a calf/bull deity through the process of religious assimilation and syncretism. Among the Egyptians' and Hebrews' neighbors in the Ancient Near East and in the Aegean, the Aurochs, the wild bull, was widely worshipped, often as the Lunar Bull and as the creature of El.
Je pense, que les juifs ont oblié que les deux veaux dor faisaint le thrône de Yahwé dieu.

My references:

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veau_d%27or or the English version which is different and more interesting.