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The Scapegoat (1856) is a painting by William Holman Hunt which depicts the "scapegoat" described in the Book of Leviticus, which must be ritually expelled from the flocks of the Israelite tribes as part of a sacrifical ritual of cleansing. In line with traditional Christian theology, Hunt believed that the scapegoat was a prototype for the redemptive sacrifice of Jesus, and that the goat represented that aspect of the Messiah described in Isaiah as a "suffering servant" of God. Hunt had the picture framed with the quotations "Surely he hath borne our Griefs and carried our Sorrows; Yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of GOD and afflicted." (Isaiah 53:4) and "And the Goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a Land not inhabited." (Leviticus 16:22) The Scapegoat, by William Holman Hunt, 1854. ...
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Meaning The painting was the only major work completed by Hunt during his first trip to the Holy Land, to which he had travelled after a crisis of religious faith. Hunt intended to experience the actual locations of the Biblical narratives as a means to confront the relationship between faith and truth. While in Jerusalem Hunt had met Henry Wentworth Monk a millenarian prophet who had distinctive theories about the meaning of the scapegoat and the proximity of the Last Judgement. Monk was particularly preoccupied with Christian Zionism. Portrait of Monk by William Holman Hunt Henry Wentworth Monk (April 6, 1827 – August 24, 1896) was a Canadian Christian Zionist, mystic, Messianist, and millenarian. ...
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Hunt chose a subject derived from the Torah as part of a project to convert Jews to Christianity. He believed that Judiac views of the scapegoat were consistent with Christian conception of the Messiah as a suffering figure. He wrote to his friend Millais, "I am sanguine that that [the Scapegoat] may be a means of leading any reflecting Jew to see a reference to the Messiah as he was, and not as they understand, a temporal King."[2] This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...
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Notes - ^ Bronkhurst, Judith, Wiliam Holman Hunt, A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 1, p.180.
- ^ Fleming, G.H., John Everett Millais: A Biography, 1998, Constable, p.158
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