Moses with horns

[Herb Stahlke]

Don't tell me _qrn_ also means "cowlick."

Herb

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I spent the summer of 1965 participating in a project run by the Ethical
> Culture Society, working in Appalachian coal country (Corbin, Ky.) with a
> group called the Poor People's Corporation. I was advised not to mention
> that I was Jewish. And when it did come up, I did in fact see some people
> glancing covertly at my hairline.
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> Mark A. Mandel
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> 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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