Word: calfing
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...soon as he came near the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses' anger burned hot . . . And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire, and ground it to powder, and scattered it upon the water, and made the people of Israel drink...
...Mount Sinai, his people had already broken No. 2: Thou shalt not make for thyself a graven image. Although idolatry had been forbidden under Hebrew law since the religion's birth, the Israelites' faith had wavered during their wanderings through the wilderness, and they had built themselves a golden calf like those worshiped by the Canaanites, who shared their ancestral homeland...
...Calf worship comes up in other parts of the Bible as well, always derided as an example of paganism. But while scientists have unearthed a few examples of bovine idols, they have never found a calf that predates the Exodus, which scholars think took place between 1500 and 1200 B.C. Last week, though, a team of Harvard archaeologists announced they had done just that. During excavations in the ancient port city of Ashkelon, Rachel Stark, 20, a student volunteer, accidentally uncovered a statue of a calf inside a pottery container. Says Stark: "I didn't realize what I had found...
...bosses did. Says Harvard's Lawrence Stager, the dig director: "I'm an old farm boy and recognized it as a bull calf immediately." Judging from the style of other pottery in the temple, he dates the figurine to about 1550 B.C. Because that is up to several hundred years before the escape from Egypt, Stager thinks the object might well have been a prototype for the calves mentioned in the Bible. It also supports the belief that the Israelites took some of their religious practices from other Canaanites...
...rules? Both of these Ghost stories take grave liberties with the laws of physics. In the Cosby film, no one can see Dad at first; then only his children; then everybody, if the lights are low and the plot requires it. He walks on floors but falls calf-deep into a carpet. In Ghost Sam can walk through some walls but not others. At the climax, he wastes time trying to persuade Molly to open her door when he has the power to unlatch it. He is a most unreliable specter. If you were Molly, would you trust this ghost...