Description: The latest in the JPS Bible Commentary series, 2011 National Jewish Book Award Winner, Barbara Dobkin Award in Women’s StudiesThe moving story of Ruth, with its themes of loyalty, loving kindness (hesed), and redemption, is one of the great narratives of the Bible. Socially, the Israelites were aware of their responsibility to protect the weak and unprotected among them. Redemption secures the life of the people as a community, not just as individuals. In this story, Boaz fills the familial obligation to marry the widow of a deceased relative who never was able to father children, both to continue the family line and protect an otherwise vulnerable woman. The authors provide a critical, line-by-line commentary of the biblical text, presented in its original Hebrew, complete with vocalization and cantillation marks, as well as the 1985 JPS English translation. The extensive introduction places the book within its historical, literary, and critical context, discusses contemporary interpretations of the story of Ruth, and examines its major motifs and themes, among them: family, marriage and levirate marriage in biblical and ancient Israel, redemption and inheritance, hesed, and the book’s connection with the Jewish holiday of Shavuot.
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Book Title: Jps Bibles Commentary: Ruth
Number of Pages: 216 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
Publication Year: 2011
Topic: Judaism / Sacred Writings, Biblical Commentary / Old Testament, Biblical Studies / General
Item Height: 0.9 in
Genre: Religion
Item Weight: 18.6 Oz
Author: Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, Tikva Frymer-Kensky
Item Length: 10.3 in
Item Width: 8.2 in
Book Series: Jps Bibles Commentary Ser.
Format: Hardcover
