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Ruth: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

In recent years, students, scholars, and lay readers of the Bible have been increasingly drawn to the book of Ruth. Delving deeply into the complicated nature of its characters’ relationships, Jeremy Schipper encourages readers to consider the roles that categories of difference involving gender, disability, household status, ethnicity, and sexual desire play throughout the text. This fresh...

the tenth century B.C.E. (65–75; cf. Beattie, 252; von Rad, 48–56). Such interpretative strategies assume that a certain theological or ideological position would be especially appropriate for a particular period and the controversies of that time. A few representative examples may be sufficient to show the problems with dating the book on the basis of ideology or theology. Following Hals, Campbell argues for a similar date because “the theological perspective of the book fits well into the early
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