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Gospel Women: Studies of the Named Women in the Gospels offers fresh perspectives on the women who appear of in the Gospels. Richard Bauckham provides an in-depth study of both the individual women who appear in the Gospels and the specific passages in which they appear. This unique approach reveals that there is much more to be known about the women than previous studies have assumed. Employing...

The parallel between the opening (1:1–2) and the closing of the book, neither of which reflects the gynocentric perspective of the narrative between them, is valid so far as it goes, but “mocking” is not true to the tone of Ruth. Nor is the genealogy in fact how one would expect an Israelite tale to end: there are no comparable examples. The striking feature of the genealogy, as observed already, is its relative lack of connection with the story the book tells. Only by starting with Perez and thereby
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