Moses with horns

[Tom Zurinskas]

I suppose you think that by looking at your head that they were looking for horns.  Which means that you knew such a myth existed back then that all Jews have horns, not just Moses.  Which means you thought they and maybe everybodyd had heard the myth too and they proved it by looking at your head because you made a note of it back then.  

 

This is very strange because I've never heard of a horned Moses or horned jews

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+ 
see truespel.com phonetic spelling

 
> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:17:25 -0400
> From: thnidu at GMAIL.COM
> Subject: Re: Moses with horns
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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> Poster: Mark Mandel <thnidu at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: Moses with horns
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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.
> 
> Mark A. Mandel
> 
> On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:
> 
> > 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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