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The Book of Ruth contains one of the Bible’s best-known and most-loved stories. This major commentary by Robert L. Hubbard shows how the author of Ruth used, with great literary artistry, the story of Ruth and Naomi to convey important theological themes. In his introduction, Hubbard discusses the issues of text, canonicity, literary criticism, authorship and date, purpose, setting, genre, legal...

view of Naomi’s bitter indictment of her god in v. 13! Further, how unparalleled is this affirmation in the Bible. While some foreign figures praised Israel’s God (queen of Sheba, 1 K. 10:9; Nebuchadnezzar, Dan. 2:47; 3:28–29; 4:34 [Eng. 37]; Darius, Dan. 6:27–28 [Eng. 26–27]) or sought his mercy (king of Assyria, Jon. 3:7–9), only two actually confessed loyalty to him (Rahab, Josh. 2:11; Naaman, 2 K. 5:15; cf. v. 17).25 In any case, one must not minimize the sacrifice and pain involved. Whatever
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