What is the Hebrew term for the power of horns seen on D.M.'s Moses called?

lanfranco

I'm not entirely clear on what you're asking. The biblical term for Moses' appearance after he descended from Sinai was "karan ohr," which meant rays of light. (Arpeggionist can tell us whether that's the correct transliteration and translation.) It was probably intended to be understood metaphorically, that his face was shining radiantly. However, when the Old Testament was translated into Latin (by Jerome, who bequeathed to us so many problematic understandings of the original), the phrase was rendered more or less as "horned face." Michelangelo depicted these horns on his famous sculpture of Moses, but there were other artists who painted rays of light: http://www.answers.com/topic/halo-religious-iconography Mar 09 07, 3:26 PM