(urth) Are the Neighbors REALLY the Neighbors?

James Wynn crushtv at gmail.com
Tue Feb 15 13:51:07 PST 2011


On 2/15/2011 3:12 PM, Lee Berman wrote:
> Okay, I was confused whether this was a Koran or Exodus misreading. Looks like it was a Latin
> translation of the Bible that got "cornuta" or horned as the description of Moses' face while
> the Greek got "glorified" and Hebrew got "radiant".

Remember that Mohammed grew up in a Christianized society. The Koran 
takes some divergent paths from Orthodox Christianity but, for example, 
it accepts the virgin birth of Jesus as a given. If the Koran has a 
conceptual error regarding Moses, it probably came from Christians.

u+16b9



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