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In Finding God in the Margins, we encounter refugees, undocumented immigrants, poverty, hunger, women’s rights, male power and privilege, discrimination, and injustice. Carolyn Custis James reveals how the book of Ruth is about God and how he reaches into the margins and chooses two totally marginalized women who are zeros in the eyes of the patriarchal culture. This bracing narrative puts on...

Perhaps the most significant recent scholarly insight regarding the book of Ruth has been the general consensus that we are looking at the story of a female Job.1 Naomi’s losses are catastrophic and pivotal to the story. As we will see, according to ancient patriarchal calculations, Naomi’s losses amount to total devastation and raise disturbing questions about God’s character that the story will address. The opening five verses describe a devastating litany of tragedies that leave the Israelite
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