Why did Michelangelo sculpt Moses with horns?. L'Unione Sarda English - L'Unione Sarda English ...

In the Bible, kings themselves are referred to as "horns," particularly in the Book of Daniel and the Book of Revelation (i.e., Daniel 7:7-8, 24; Revelation 5:6). Early translations of Scripture ...

The horns are traced to a mistranslation of Exodus 34. After Moses met with the Lord on Sinai, the people were afraid because “the skin of his face shone.” The Hebrew word for beam of light ...

HORNS OF MICHAEL ANGELO'S MOSES In 1875 Miss Helen M. Knowlton, a pupil of the late William Morris Hunt, published a selection from many notes which she had made of his ...