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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...

existential option in the form of two brothers, one of whom is gifted with the correct choice. We will need to recall this in reference to Orpah’s decision (see below). The expression “the fields of Moab” appears five times in this chapter (vv. 1*, 2*, 6a*, 6b*, 22*). The frequency of another term is equally remarkable: the root שׁוב (“return”) is employed no less than twelve times (vv. 6*, 7*, 8*, 10*, 11*, 12*, 15a*, 15b*, 16*, 21*, 22* [2×]). Throughout this commentary, other numerical repetitions
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