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  • From: Shoshanna Walker <rosewalk AT concentric.net>
  • To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: Ex. 34
  • Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 17:03:23 -0500


Trust me

There were no horns

Shoshanna





Ben Crick's post came through while I was finishing this, but I think some
of it still bears saying.

It's interesting that both qaran (G pft., here only) and maqrin (C ptc., Ps
69:32 only) seem to be denominative from qeren. That in itself may say
something in favor of their having different senses. Hab 3:4 is the one
passage cited in HALOT where the noun means "ray," but I don't know that it
can be considered a definitive example. If qeren can mean "ray," then that
might explain why there would be two different denominative forms--one to
describe the act of emitting rays, the other the act of growing or the state
of having horns.

If you want some material to explore the issue further, HALOT notes the
following in support of "shine":

Septuagint, Pesitta, Targums
M. Noth, Das Zweite Buch Mose, Exodus, ATD 5:214
Traduction oecumenique de la Bible 1975 (first volume) 190
*B. Childs, The Book of Exodus, Philadelphia & London (1974) 603, 609f

in support of "horns":

Aquila, Vulgate
Michelangelo's Moses
A. Jirku, Die Gesichtsmaske des Mose, Zeitschrift des Deutschen
Palastina-Vereins 67 (1944/5) 43-45
Jack M. Sasson, Bovine symbolism in the Exodus narrative, Vetus Testamentum
18 (1968) 385f
Karl Jaros, Die Stellung des Elohisten zur kanaanaischen Religion 132f
Zeitschrift fur die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 88 (1976) 275-280
J. B. Pritchard, The Ancient Near East in Pictures, Princeton 1954 (second
ed. 1969) 309, 513-521

I haven't checked any of the citations, BTW. They're basically just copied
directly out of HALOT and expanded to remove abbreviations, etc.

Trevor Peterson
CUA/Semitics

-----Original Message-----
From: ben merkle [mailto:benmerkle AT moscow.com]
Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 2:08 PM
To: Biblical Hebrew
Subject: Ex. 34


In Ex. 34 Moses comes down from the Mountain with the skin of his face
shining (in modern English translations). I know there is a long medieval
tradition of giving Moses horns instead. BDB gives Ex. 34 as the
only place
where the root KRN indicates shining and everywhere else it seems to
indicate horns of some sort. I think the imagery of "shining" is a lot
better than horns, but personnal preference aside, is there any other
justification for using translating KRN as shining?
Thanks,
Ben Merkle
New Saint Andrews College




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  • Ex. 34, ben merkle, 12/01/2001
    • <Possible follow-up(s)>
    • RE: Ex. 34, Lisbeth S. Fried, 12/02/2001
    • RE: Ex. 34, Shoshanna Walker, 12/02/2001
    • Ex. 34, Shoshanna Walker, 12/02/2001
    • Re: Ex. 34, Ben Crick, 12/02/2001
    • RE: Ex. 34, Trevor & Julie Peterson, 12/02/2001
    • RE: Ex. 34, Shoshanna Walker, 12/02/2001
    • Re: Ex. 34, c stirling bartholomew, 12/02/2001
    • Re: Ex. 34, Shoshanna Walker, 12/02/2001
    • Re: Ex. 34, Ben Crick, 12/03/2001
    • RE: Ex. 34, Trevor & Julie Peterson, 12/03/2001

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