Ruth (Apollos Old Testament Commentary) Race While this biblical text has

While this biblical text has been subject to a broader range of interpretation probably than any other book in the Bible

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Ruth (Apollos Old Testament Commentary) Race While this biblical text hasOn 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