tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post1527413533940196286..comments2024-03-22T21:58:18.933+00:00Comments on ShukerNature: A DECAPITATED UNICORN FROM SOUTH AFRICA - ANOTHER LONG-OVERLOOKED CRYPTOZOOLOGICAL CONUNDRUM RESURRECTED AND RESOLVEDAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15628598508836601012noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-20738898585528558242023-09-27T13:27:10.769+01:002023-09-27T13:27:10.769+01:00Hello. I came across this blog post of yours afte...Hello. I came across this blog post of yours after googling to follow-up a reference to Campbell's "unicorn" in Rabbi Dr. Ludwig Philippson's 1844 commentary on the Bible[1].<br /><br />Philippson is discussing the Biblical רְעֵם _rə`em_ (which is mentioned in lots of places, not just the Book of Job). He explains it to be probably the wild buffalo, but then says "The ancient versions, however, created a great confusion by the Septuagint conveying the word as _monokeros_ and the Vulgate occasionally as _unicornis_. Both ancients and moderns asserted the existence of a unicorn, and it is not of itself improbably. Aside from that it is claimed to have been found in Tibet, John Campbell (see _Travels in South Africa II_, p. 294) received the head of an animal from the Hottentots, that was familiar to them, given in the following illustration, and deposited a fragment of the skull with the horn in the museum of the London Missionary Society. On the other hand, the Vulgate also sometimes gives "rhinoceros", as do Aquila and Saadia, and Michaelis recommends this interpretation."<br /><br />The illustration (see the link below) is similar but different to the one you give. Philippson goes on to point out that the mentions in Scripture are more consonant with a two-horned beast than a single-horned, and gives a picture and short description of a rhinoceros for comparison.<br /><br />[1] https://archive.org/details/Philippson--Torah/PhilippsonTorah/page/n833/mode/2up (in German).Michael Granthttp://lethargic-man.dreamwidth.org/noreply@blogger.com