Moses with horns (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Joel S. Berson]

At 3/30/2010 12:56 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
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>You don't have to go back a thousand years.  Many modern editorial
>cartoons in Arabic newspapers continue to depict Israeli political
>leaders with horns.  It is a common anti-semitic depiction of Jews, and
>it isn't hard at all to find examples in art from the Middle ages
>forward.

Once again, Mr. Zurinskas exhibits his tone-deafness.  (I refrain
from more critical wording.)

Joel


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> > Sounds like he ran into a bunch of art historians from 1000 years ago.
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> > in=2C Moses with horns and jews with horns - all news to me.
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> > > > 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 everybody had heard the myth too and they proved it by
> > looking
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> > > > head because you made a note of it back then.
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> > > > This is very strange because I've never heard of a horned Moses or
> > > > horned jews
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> > > > Tom Zurinskas
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> > > It's not that strange to anyone who paid attention in art history
> > class:
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> > > http://www.usm.maine.edu/~rabrams/michelangeloMoses.jpg
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>http://smarthistory.org/assets/images/New_Images/michelangelo_moses1.jp
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