John Meade, "Why Does Michelangelo’s Moses Look Like That?"

There has been some interesting background on horns and Moses having horns on his face in the past (see, e.g., Süring, "The Horn-Motifs of the Bible and the Ancient Near East"). John Meade has just posted a brief  interesting discussion on Exodus 34:29 as "a fascinating example of the tension between the formal and functional renderings of the Hebrew text in the history of its translation" and the reflection of that tradition in Michelangelo's sculpture of Moses (with horns) over at the Evangelical Textual Criticism site. 

And it nicely reminds us of one aspect of the relationship between Scripture Engagement (in the form of sculpture, in this case) and translation. As Meade says, and we would all agree, "translations have consequences."

You can find his post here: John Meade, "Why Does Michelangelo’s Moses Look Like That?"