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| Title: | Ruth and Naomi |
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| Notes: | Dr. He Qi is a professor at the Nanjing Union Theological Seminary and a tutor for master candidate students in the Philosophy Department of Nanjing University. He is also a member of the China Art Association and a council member of the Asian Christian Art Association.
"The passion of Ruth's commitment is suggested by the word "clung." The verb is most frequently found in the context of marriage, such as the famous words from the garden scene in Genesis 2:24. "Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh." Ruth clings to her mother-in-law as a man clings to his wife....Naomi makes one last attempt to send Ruth away...Ruth's response is among the most radical statements of commitment in the Bible...the words of Ruth 1:15-16 take the form of a covenant, but a covenant that goes against all social expectations. Ruth chooses to commit herself to Naomi. She binds herself unconditionally not only to a woman rather than a man, but in an act of radical solidarity, to a woman in near desperate circumstances." (Pressler, 271) |
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| Date: | 2001 |
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| Artist: | He, Qi |
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| Object/Function: | Painting |
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| Country: | China
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| Scripture: | Ruth 1:6-22
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| Person as Subject: | Ruth (Biblical figure)
Naomi (Biblical figure)
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| Lectionary links: | BProp26
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| Library of Congress Subject: | Christian art and symbolism -- China
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| ICONCLASS Number: | 71F622
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| Copyright Source: | http://www.heqiarts.com/ |
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| Attribution: | He, Qi. Ruth and Naomi, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=46090 [retrieved May 21, 2013]. Original source: http://www.heqiarts.com/. |
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| Record Number: | 46090
Last Updated: 2011-04-25 16:16:52
Record Created: 2006-06-24 00:00:00 |
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| Institution: | Vanderbilt University
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Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition |
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| Bibliographic Source: | Joshua, Judges, and Ruth |
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| Author: | Pressler, Carolyn |
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| Publisher: | Westminster John Knox Press |
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| Date: | 2002 |
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