Full Description
This volume, using multiple methods, seeks to bring together the best scholarship and insight—Jewish and Christian, past and present—that has contributed to our understanding and appreciation of the biblical book of Ruth. As a feminist commentary, it is particularly sensitive to issues of relationship and inclusion, power and agency. In addition to the voices of the primary co-authors, Alice Laffey and Mahri Leonard-Fleckman, the volume incorporates and integrates important contributing voices from diverse contemporary social contexts and geographical locations. In sum, the commentary seeks to allow Ruth, Naomi, and Boaz to speak again for the first time.
Contents
Contents
List of Abbreviations vii
List of Contributors xi
Foreword "Tell It on the Mountain"—or, "And You Shall Tell Your Daughter [as Well]" xiii
Athalya Brenner-Idan
Editor's Introduction to Wisdom Commentary: "She Is a Breath of the Power of God" (Wis 7:25) xvii
Barbara E. Reid, OP
Authors' Introduction xxxvii
Acknowledgments xci
Ruth 1 Finding Alternatives 1
Ruth 2 Gleaning 55
Ruth 3 Searching for Rest 97
Ruth 4 Persevering in Loyalty 129
Afterword 163
Bibliography 165
Index of Scripture References and Other Ancient Writings 177
Index of Subjects 185
