In ancient Near Eastern religions, the bull was important. The earliest cities had bull-head idols. Baal was often depicted as a calf. In artwork the gods and demigods were depicted with horns.
Now we come to Moses:
IMO, Moses was meant to have horns - just like a Near Eastern demigod. The Hebrew word "keren" literally means "horn", and we know that horns were a symbol of divinity in that region. Receiving the Law is equivalent to eating the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil. Learning the Law was a step towards becoming Godlike, so it would make sense that Moses acquired horns after receiving the Law.
Any thoughts?
Now we come to Moses:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_(Michelangelo)The Douay-Rheims Bible translates the Vulgate as, "And when Moses came down from the mount Sinai, he held the two tables of the testimony, and he knew not that his face was horned from the conversation of the Lord."[11] This was Jerome's effort to faithfully translate the difficult, original Hebrew Masoretic text, which uses the term, karan (based on the root, keren, which often means "horn"); the term is now interpreted to mean "shining" or "emitting rays" (somewhat like a horn).[12][13] Although some historians believe that Jerome made an outright error,[14] Jerome himself appears to have seen keren as a metaphor for "glorified", based on other commentaries he wrote, including one on Ezekiel, where he wrote that Moses' face had "become 'glorified', or as it says in the Hebrew, 'horned'."[6]:77
IMO, Moses was meant to have horns - just like a Near Eastern demigod. The Hebrew word "keren" literally means "horn", and we know that horns were a symbol of divinity in that region. Receiving the Law is equivalent to eating the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil. Learning the Law was a step towards becoming Godlike, so it would make sense that Moses acquired horns after receiving the Law.
Any thoughts?