To the reader with eyes to see, this woman is a Samuel-like character, who anoints the Messiah before his coronation on the cross. |
Leo anoints Rose, her eyes closed, her upturned palms extended in a gesture of giving and receiving. |
He anoints his body with an endless series of unguents, emollients, lubricants, and conditioners. |
In that story, a woman bathes Jesus' feet with her tears, anoints them with ointment from her alabaster jar, and dries them with her hair. |
It is this key combination of actors that anoints artists, invents audiences, projects unsuspected sources of art from the margins to the centre. |
The first episode of the passion account is that of a nameless woman who anoints Jesus for burial, correctly recognizing his kingly identity and his approaching death. |