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I really do not want to say anything else, but I feel like I have to. The fact that the Israelites were worshipping a calf just means they reverted back to it. That’s actually what biblical history says all throughout it. If they did they same thing avter Moses then how can that situation relate specifically to moses.

Actually what happened was the hebrews took one God and made him Lord of all and completely changed him from anything else that was before. Read Albright’s Yahweh and the God’s of Canaan. They were not just taking a god and worshipping him they were reworking every religious principle that was before. El was the chief god of the canaanite gods, There were other gods that were supposed to have fought with a river dragon or something, I can’t remember exactly, and they brought peace to the world. Behemoth and Leviathan from Job are like the creatures in those creation myths.

Mosaic religion is actually all about Yahweh. I may be wrong, but I think the real debate is about Abraham’s use of the gods, but Albright who is one of the best Biblical Archaeologists of the last century says there is no reason to believe that he did not believe solely in one God. That is because other laws go back to that time, such as the laws of adoptive children in the area which fit perfectly with the customs in the book of Genesis. Also the laws of inheritance having to do with Isaac are the same. Why would it not preserve also that he believed in one God? Archaeology is actually proving that no matter if one is liberal or conservative the Bible preserves a whole lot of true history. How would they have applied the laws of Abraham otherwise? They had no knowledge of such things when the Bible we retain was written.