Ruth

by L. Daniel Hawk

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783593075
• ISBN13: 9781783593071
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Apollos
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"