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This volume provides a readable introduction to the narrative book of Ruth appropriate for the student, pastor, and scholar. LaCocque combines historical, literary, feminist, and liberationist approaches in an engaging synthesis. He argues that the book was written in the post-exilic period and that the author was a woman. Countering the fears and xenophobia of many in Jerusalem, the biblical...

Following the example of other novellas with which I have already compared Ruth, this narrative is open-ended and apt to be developed further; for example, the story of the couple Boaz-Ruth, the Obed story, and the story of his descendants, in particular David. The same is true in the book of Jonah, in the story of Joseph, and others.23 Without the genealogy, the narrative would be closed; with the genealogy, it remains open. The same applies to the patriarchal sagas—one also finds there narratives
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