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Ruth
L Daniel Hawk
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Description for Ruth
Hardback. Series: Apollos Old Testament Commentary. Num Pages: 166 pages. BIC Classification: HRCG1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
On the surface, the book of Ruth tells the tale of an unlikely marriage between a destitute Moabite widow and an upstanding citizen of a Judean village. The deeper import of the story, however, has to do with the internal boundaries that define the people of God. Is Israel a closed community, held together exclusively by bonds of kinship, or a nation that welcomes faithful outsiders into its sphere of belonging? Ruth appropriates marriage as the symbolic vehicle of a transformation in Israel's self-understanding - from a community articulated by Naomi's declaration that her daughters-in-law marry within their own people, ... Read more
On the surface, the book of Ruth tells the tale of an unlikely marriage between a destitute Moabite widow and an upstanding citizen of a Judean village. The deeper import of the story, however, has to do with the internal boundaries that define the people of God. Is Israel a closed community, held together exclusively by bonds of kinship, or a nation that welcomes faithful outsiders into its sphere of belonging? Ruth appropriates marriage as the symbolic vehicle of a transformation in Israel's self-understanding - from a community articulated by Naomi's declaration that her daughters-in-law marry within their own people, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Inter-Varsity Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Apollos Old Testament Commentary
Condition
New
Number of Pages
166
Place of Publication
Nottingham, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783593071
SKU
V9781783593071
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About L Daniel Hawk
L. Daniel Hawk is professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at Ashland Theological Seminary and an ordained minister in the United Methodist Church.
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