Ruth, Jonah, Esther (Biblia.com)

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Eugene F. Roop focuses on three of the Bible's most compelling short stories, Ruth, Jonah, and Esther. He draws attention to distinctive narrative characteristics of these three magnificent dramas. Such scrutiny opens new vistas of interpretation that can undergird the faith, life, and neighborly relations of the church. Each narrative features intense interaction among the characters and, in...

The book of Ruth has had almost as much trouble finding its place in the biblical canon as the heroine did to find her place in Bethlehem. In most English Bibles, Ruth appears after Judges and before 1 Samuel (as in NRSV, NIV). That location was established by the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible. For some time scholars assumed the Septuagint order represented an alternate Jewish ordering to the one found in the traditional Hebrew scrolls. Now it appears

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