The Septuagint is the Greek translation of the Old Testament made in the third century B.C. Originally, in the Septuagint, the Book of Ruth was considered as an appendix to the Book of Judges, and so it was not given a title of its own. However, in later editions of the Septuagint, the phrase telos ton kriton was inserted, which means “the end of Judges,” thus indicating a break between the two books, Judges and Ruth. Josephus, a first-century Jewish historian, states that Ruth