Ruth: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary (Biblia.com)

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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...

these divisions. The traditional division of Ruth into four chapters is credited to the Archbishop of Canterbury Stephen Langton’s chapter divisions of an edition of the Vulg. in the thirteenth century C.E., roughly two hundred years after MTL. The only larger section division in MTL occurs after 4:17, where a parašâ pĕtûḥâ separates the genealogy of Perez (4:18–22) from the rest of the book. If one follows this section division, it would translate into two chapters (1:1–20 and 2:1–5). Nevertheless,

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