ABSTRACT
The Bible and the Qur’an can be read together as complementary sources. In this research, we adopt a step-by-step approach to biblical and qur’anic narratives of the golden calf story: that is, we pace back and forth from one text to the other one until each text can be understood to be a complement of the other in one combined intertwined narrative. We demonstrate the general efficacy of this approach through one particular case study: the story of the golden calf as given by the reconciliation of the apparent inconsistencies within and between its two narrations.
