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Re: Ex. 34

From: ben.crick AT argonet.co.uk (Ben Crick)
To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
Subject: Re: Ex. 34
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 09:29:46 +0000

On Sun 2 Dec 2001 (14:06:11), cc.constantine AT worldnet.att.net wrote:
> > Trust me
> >
> > There were no horns
>
> How could Michelangelo be wrong about this?
>
Michaelangelo was an Italian, and his Bible was the Latin Vulgate. As Trevor
Peterson has indicated, the Vulgate has "horns" at Exodus 34:29b-30:
/Moses... ignorabat quod *cornuta* esset facies sua ex consortio sermonis
Dei. videntes autem Aaron et filii Israhel *cornutam* Mosi, etc./

So Michelangelo was right about this, according to his lights.

Unfortunately, Michelangelo made Moses look uncannily like the golden calf
that Aaron made in Exodus 32:24!

Ben (Thanks, Trevor)
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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