{"id":43376,"date":"2018-11-04T19:34:50","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T17:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=43376"},"modified":"2022-05-31T18:51:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T15:51:58","slug":"horns-symbol-of-power-or-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/horns-symbol-of-power-or-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Horns: Symbol Of Power – Or Evil?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It wasn\u2019t only Moses who was unaware that his face was radiant when he descended the mountain with the second set of tablets. Walking down Fifth Avenue a number of weeks ago I snapped a picture of a statue on a \u00a0church on 90<\/span>th<\/span> street.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This statue is of course just one of hundreds that depict our great prophet and lawgiver with horns. The Most well-known statue of a horned Moses is Michelangelo\u2019s statue, exhibited in the church of St. Peter in Chains in Rome.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The horns are traced back to the Vulgate, St. Jerome\u2019s 4<\/span>th<\/span> century translation of the Bible into Latin. The word Keren, from the root KRN, \u00a0has many possible meanings, but most commonly is a horn, the Vulgate\u2019s reading \u201chis face was horned.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Jerome\u2019s mistranslation has not only been depicted in numerous statues, it also made its way into many Anti-Semitic creeds, the horned Jews in league with the devil.<\/span><\/p>\n

But Bena Elisha Medjuck, in a thesis written twenty years ago, argues convincingly that Jerome\u2019s translation wasn\u2019t mistaken but was deliberate. In many ancient society horns were symbols of strength and power. \u00a0One such example (and there are many) is the depiction of Alexander the Great in a Greek silver coin with ram\u2019s horns. (displayed at the British Museum)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jerome intentionally chose the translation of horn, because horns conveyed the idea that Moses was a man of incredible strength, power, and glory due to his speaking with God. Tragically horns transformed from a symbol of strength and closeness to God, to one demonstrating some sort of pact with the devil. <\/span><\/p>\n

Just please don\u2019t tell my radiant daughter Keren.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":false,"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"Horns: Symbol Of Power - Or Evil?","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"That mistranslation just might have been intentional","preview_embedded":"","preview_image":{"ID":43185,"id":43185,"title":"ex34-Gitler2","filename":"ex34-Gitler2.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ex34-Gitler2.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/horns-symbol-of-power-or-evil\/ex34-gitler2\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"ex34-gitler2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":43376,"date":"2018-11-01 13:38:56","modified":"2018-11-06 19:47:45","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":183,"height":275,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ex34-Gitler2-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ex34-Gitler2.jpg","medium-width":183,"medium-height":275,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ex34-Gitler2.jpg","medium_large-width":183,"medium_large-height":275,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ex34-Gitler2.jpg","large-width":183,"large-height":275,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ex34-Gitler2.jpg","1536x1536-width":183,"1536x1536-height":275,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ex34-Gitler2.jpg","2048x2048-width":183,"2048x2048-height":275,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ex34-Gitler2.jpg","post_full_size-width":183,"post_full_size-height":275,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ex34-Gitler2.jpg","home_baner-width":183,"home_baner-height":275}},"preview_video":"","external_link":"","link_for_pay":false,"tile_gallery_items":false,"credits":""},"alternate_tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"","hide_media":false},"tile_group":{"preview_image_url":false,"main_caption":"","sub_caption":"","":null,"popup_package_extra_content":"","read_time":""},"home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo":{"seo_title":"","seo_description":"","seo_default_title":"","seo_default_description":""},"old_create_date":"","links":false,"send_noty":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50634"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43376"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105307,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43376\/revisions\/105307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}