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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