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Ruth is one of "the little books of the Bible", only four chapters long. Katharine Doob Sakenfeld has written a commentary of unusual sensibility and discernment that makes very clear why this book has such great importance as literature and as scripture. Ruth is a very human book; its subject matter is the stuff of everyday life: family, marriage, children, homes, food, departures, deaths, good...

Although the powerful and beautiful imagery of God’s protective wings as a place of refuge appears elsewhere only in Psalm 91:4, the motif of God as refuge appears in various contexts, for example, Deuteronomy 32:37 and Psalm 46. A reading of Psalm 91 may lead one to think first of disease or war, but it is possible to read the Psalm imagining that Ruth may have prayed it herself, or that Boaz’s prayer on her behalf extended to incorporate this Psalm. The image of refuge, the language of care and
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