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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...

what Ronald Hals did, for example.34 But when Hals compares Ruth with the Succession Narrative of David (2 Samuel 9–20 + 1 Kings 1–2) and sees in both documents a theological reduction to providence as the modus operandi of God, a proof of their contemporaneity, he may be comparing apples and oranges. The two things being compared belong to completely different kinds, for one belongs to “history” (in the ancient sense of the term) and the other to fiction. In this last category, it suffices that
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