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The book of Ruth is a tale of charm and delight. It tells about very ordinary people facing very ordinary events. We meet Naomi, who underwent hardship in famine and bereavement but eventually won peace and security. We meet Ruth, a young foreign woman from Moab who attached herself to her mother-in-law, Naomi, and to Naomi’s God. And we meet Boaz, who, by marrying Ruth, fitted into God’s...

Before examining the details of the book of Ruth, however, we shall first remind ourselves more fully of what Christians have understood by the term ‘providence’, and indicate some of the difficulties that stand against such a faith in our day. Then we shall move back to the very different world of twelfth- or eleventh-century BC Palestine, to ‘the days when the judges ruled’, and shall discover nevertheless that in some ways the challenges to faith in the providence of God were not so very different
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