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The Crane Returns To Comfort Job
Scott Bodenheimer, 1995
woven color plates, 17" x 22" |
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Job Before the Whirlwind
Scott Bodenheimer, 1995, woven color plates, each panel 14" x 5" |
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Job is a subject I’ve depicted many times over the last twenty years. I'm not so much interested in his famed patience, or the drama of his tragic losses of his children and property. What fascinates me more is that Job’s humility shamed God into making an apology, which makes the Book of Job our only glimpse throughout the Old Testament of a comprehensible compassionate deity. Everywhere else, God speaks shortly, sometimes with anger, sometimes with condescension, but never with compassion. It’s left up to various prophets, especially the Psalmist, to describe a compassionate God. Even in the New Testament, though Jesus speaks in God’s name, God himself doesn’t speak, even when Christ is on the cross:
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Mark 15:34 KJV |
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