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17-Sep-2018

Kaymakli Manastiri Trabzon

Kaymakli Manastiri was an Armenian monastery. It is on the terrain of a farm house at the fringe of the city. The roof being gone it is open to the elements, a pity because there are some good frescoes inside, and the stonework is fine. The monastery was in use until WW I. Two chapels remain, one – dating from 1424 – houses the frescoes, the other is used to store hay.

I was informed this is Moses, you can recognize him from his horns. This itself comes from a misintrepretation, I quote Wikipedia: "This is derived from an alternative interpretation of the Hebrew phrase qaran `ohr panav. The root Q-R-N (qoph, resh, nun) may be read as either "horn" or "ray of light", depending on context. As a noun, this word turns up some ninety times within the Hebrew Bible, and always means "horn". The alternative meaning, "ray of light", turns up only in the post-Biblical Hebrew literature. As a verb, the three verses describing Moses' appearance are the only three examples in the Biblical and post-Biblical literature of this verb ever being translated as "shine". Aside from the references to Moses, the verb is always understood to mean "have horns" (cf: Ps 69:32, for the one other Biblical occurrence). [The phrase (- I cannot produce Hebrew here)] translates to "the skin of his face".

Traditionally interpreted, these two words form an expression meaning that Moses was enlightened, literally that "the skin of his face shone" (as with a gloriole), as the KJV has it."

This is a new edit of a 1993 slide, after I made fresh scans in 2018.


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Guest 30-Oct-2009 14:26
Dies ist Moses, erkennbar an seinen Hörnchen!!