Moses with horns

[Herb Stahlke]

This matches the explanation my father gave. He was Hebrew scholar,
but I hear the story long enough ago that I'd treat my memory of it it
as anecdotal

Herb

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> To those who know what really happened, please note that I present an
> alternative *story* and not the *truth*.
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> -Wilson
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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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