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Revision as of 14:27, 14 November 2018
The Scapegoat is an oil painting by William Holman Hunt, finished in 1851. It is a depiction of a lonely goat in a desolate wasteland. It's horns are adorned with red cloth, and it is bleating pathetically for help that will never come. Around it, lie skeletons from former goats foretelling the fate of this poor animal. The purpose of the scapegoat is described in the Book of Leviticus. In the barbaric Jewish ritual, the sins of a town are symbolically placed onto a young healthy goat with the blood-red cloth, and the goat is banished from the town to die in the wilderness as a blood sacrifice to Yahweh.
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- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scapegoat_(painting) - Wikipedia.
