The Golden Calf – Study Guide, Additional Resources

Recommended Readings:

• W. Brueggemann, “The Book of Exodus,” The New Interpreter’s Bible (Nashville: Abingdon, 1994), 927-56.
• B. S. Childs, The Book of Exodus (Old Testament Library; Philadelphia: Westminster, 1974), 553-624
• Moses Aberbach and Leivy Smolar, “Aaron, Jeroboam, and the Golden Calves,” Journal of Biblical Literature 86 (1967): 129-40.
• R. W. L. Moberly, At the Mountain of God: Story and Theology in Exodus 32–34 (Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1983).

Articles: (click to view)

• “The Worship of the Golden Calf” by Baruch J. Schwartz
• “Idolatry” by the Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
• “The Golden Calf” by Dr. Jeffrey Tigay
• “What Was the Sin of the Golden Calf?” by Dr. Joel Baden

Lectures: (click to view)

• “The Book of Exodus – Part 2 of 2” by The Bible Project

Sermons: (click to view)

• “The Bull in the Church Isn’t Idolatry” by The Rev. Dr. Wil Gafney

Videos: (click to view)

• YBS Exodus Study with Dr. Joel Baden, Week 5 – Full Lecture
• The Golden Calf, Dr. Joel Baden
• A Blueprint for the Tabernacle, Dr. Joel Baden
• Setting Up God’s House, Dr. Joel Baden

Podcasts: (click to access)

• “Seeing God from Behind” (Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost), Chapter, Verse, and Season: A Lectionary Podcast from Yale Bible Study

Art (click to view):

• “Adoration of the Golden Calf” by Nicolas Poussin
• “Moses Indignant at the Golden Calf” by William Blake
• “Moses Destroys the Tables” by the Dalziel Brothers
• “Study for Moses and the Golden Calf” by Leon Sitarchuk