Ruth: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary

by Jeremy Schipper

In recent years, students, scholars, and lay readers of the Bible have been increasingly drawn to the book of Ruth. Delving deeply into the complicated nature of its characters' relationships, Jeremy Schipper encourages readers to consider the roles that categories of difference involving gender, disability, household status, ethnicity, and sexual desire play throughout the text. This fresh translation of the deceptively simple book is more literal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300192150
• ISBN13: 9780300192155
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.4"