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RUTH AND NAOMI have long enjoyed favored status in Jewish and Christian tradition. Ruth is often portrayed as a paragon of virtue and a model for religious conversion. However, feminist scholars have tended to replace idyllic interpretations with more...

fl. c. 700s B.C. Moabite woman who married a Judaean living in Moab. After her husband died, Ruth traveled to Judea with her mother-in-law. She subsequently married another Judaean and became the great-grandmother of King David, and thus, a progenitor...

One of the *Five Scrolls and a book from the *Hagiographa section of the *Bible. the Book of Ruth tells the story of a Moabite woman who makes a *levirate marriage with her husband’s kinsman, Boaz and subsequently becomes the ancestress of King...

The Book of Ruth (Hebrew: מגילת רות; Sephardic, Israeli Hebrew: [məgi'lat rut]; Ashkenazi Hebrew: [mə'gɪləs rus]; "the Scroll of Ruth") is one of the books of the Ketuvim ("Writings") of the Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible) and of the Writings of...

MARJO C. A. KORPEL, The Structure of the Book of Ruth (Pericope 2; Assen: Van Gorcum, 2001). Pp. x + 288. N.P. Korpel, in her introductory chapter, gives an extensive summary of previous research by twenty scholars on the structure of the Book...

Ruth: A Continental Commentary, by Andre LaCocque. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2004. 187 pp. $28.00. I have long been a fan of Andre LaCocque's work, and this commentary is no exception. Originally written in French for the CAT series, this English version (translated by...