This résumé of Dommershausen’s summaries can be extended further. The position of Gerleman is actually more subtle. The Judaizing of Ruth the Moabitess is the story, but it has been given another direction by the secondary addition in 4:17b–22, which refers it to David. This is an attempt to soften and to make palatable the harmful Moabite tradition which was associated with David’s origins. But it is also a story of Providence; the divine direction is a hidden power behind the events; hence one