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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...

him in powerful ways, he doesn’t explain the reasons behind their losses. Where the book of Ruth lands in the Bible is significant. In the Jewish Bible, the book of Ruth is located after the book of Proverbs as a beautiful example of wisdom living, a.k.a. living in the fear of God. In the Christian Bible, Ruth follows the book of Judges and precedes 1 Samuel. Viewed at the macro level, this narrative forms a sturdy bridge between the “years when the judges ruled” (Ruth 1:1) and the monarchy of King
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