Moses with horns

[Wilson Gray]

Jews don't have horns?! Who knew?! Why, that's as amazing as the
discovery by B.C. - the comic-strip character drawn and authored by
the late Johnny Hartman (not to be confused with the late black pop
artist, Johnny Hartman), not the era a k a "BCE" - that clams have
legs! ;-)

-Wilson

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> At 2:10 PM -0400 3/28/10, Wilson Gray wrote:
>>Acording to the story that I heard, the translators of the Septuagint
>>misread the Hebrew word, _qrn_ "ray" for the word, _qrn_ "horn," both
>>related to _QoReN_, the surname of my first Hebrew professor.
>>
>>To those who know what really happened, please note that I present an
>>alternative *story* and not the *truth*.
>>
>>-Wilson
>
> I've read the same account in a novel and now that i look for it I
> see it showing up in various places on the web.  So it *must* be true!
>
> One of my favorite debunking accounts begins eloquently,
>
> "Not only did Moses not have horns but actually *no* Jews have horns
> contrary to what the old anti-Semitic myth purports"
> http://www.askmoses.com/en/article/662,2068869/Did-Moses-have-horns.html
>
> Gee, and here I always thought that's why all Jews wear hats.
>
> LH
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>>On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 7:28 AM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>>  My wife just read an article to me that said there are thousands of picturr=
>>>  es of Moses with horns on his head.  Even Michaelangelo did it.  The reason=
>>>   is that in the 400's St Jerome misinterpreted the Bible which said that Mo=
>>>  ses's face had glowing skin into his head had horns.  This was the new bibl=
>>>  e=2C and thus Moses must have horns in the paintings. =20
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>>>  Tom Zurinskas=2C USA - CT20=2C TN3=2C NJ33=2C FL7+=20
>>>  see truespel.com phonetic spelling
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>>-Wilson
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--
-Wilson
–––
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain

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