| Title: | Hosea Takes Gomer to Be His Wife |
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| Notes: | Quatrefoil on the western exterior, depicting Hosea taking Gomer to be his wife, as God commanded. On the right, the artist has chosen to represent the marriage consumation and births that follow with bedsheets. "In a narrative that should be understood as an historical account, Hosea records the names of his wife and children and the symbolic warnings that were intended for the wayward nation. Fully aware of the kind of woman that God wanted him to marry, Hosea announces in verse 3 that he has married Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim. Knowing that the name Gomer comes from a verb root meaning "to end, to come to an end, to complete," Keil has suggested that the woman's name indicates that she would be brought tom "completion" or "perfection" through her whoredom. The obvious significance is that Gomer's faithlessness to her husband would parallel Israel's faithlessness to God." (Vandermey/Cohen, 20) Donated by James T. Womack and Anne Richardson, Nashville, TN. |
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| Date: | 1220-1240 |
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| Building: | Cathédrale d'Amiens
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| Object/Function: | Relief sculpture |
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| Material: | Stone |
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| City/Town: | Amiens
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| Country: | France
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| Scripture: | Hosea 1:2-10
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| Person as Subject: | Hosea (Biblical figure)
Gomer (Biblical figure)
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| Lectionary links: | CProp12
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| General Subject: | Marriage
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| Library of Congress Subject: | Christian art and symbolism -- France -- Amiens -- Medieval, 500-1500
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| ICONCLASS Number: | 71O21
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| Index of Christian Art Number: | 20 A51 CND 14W,002 L2
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| Copyright Source: | image donated by Jim Womack and Anne Richardson |
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| Copyright Permission: | Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Attribution: | Hosea Takes Gomer to Be His Wife, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=29457 [retrieved April 26, 2024]. Original source: image donated by Jim Womack and Anne Richardson. |
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| Record Number: | 29457
Last Updated: 2022-06-20 18:58:26
Record Created: 2003-05-01 00:00:00 |
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| Institution: | Vanderbilt University
Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition |
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| Bibliographic Source: | Hosea and Amos |
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| Author: | Vandermey, H. Ronald and Gary G. Cohen |
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| Publisher: | Moody Publishers |
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| Date: | 1981 |
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