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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...

refuge. Nevertheless, two reasons for this choice represent the spirit of the author. The first is that Ruth the Moabite, metaphorically, excellently represents “the other.” She was a woman in a man’s world; she was a widow and without a child in a group for which infertility was a mark of shame; she was a foreigner and also an enemy—in short, she represents perfectly what psychology calls “the repressed.” Her arrival in Bethlehem, inevitably, shakes the Judeans’ sociopolitical foundations. Second,
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