Here we see the Israelites committing the sin of idolatry with the Golden Calf (image 1). Now, carefully review the essay by Snyder. Why, in his account, do people experience the temptation in the first place to do something as strange as worship an image? In a related vein, why would the Bible, in the second commandment, feel constrained to forbid the making of images?

1) Here we see the Israelites committing the sin of idolatry with the Golden Calf (image 1). Now,
carefully review the essay by Snyder. Why, in his account, do people experience the temptation
in the first place to do something as strange as worship an image? In a related vein, why would
the Bible, in the second commandment, feel constrained to forbid the making of images? In
particular, why, according to Snyder, would images be able to excite divine jealousy, such that
their production would have to be banned? Finally, all the other essays we have read on
photography (Weston, Bazin, Eastlake) have taken the division between painting and
photography very seriously. Does Snyders essay do so? Why or why not? In his account, would
a painting or a photograph be more or less likely to serve as an object of worship? He does not
answer this last question directly, and there is in fact more than one right answer to give, so have
fun thinking with the essay here, and just try to construct a plausible answer based on the essay

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