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Migration, Exile, and Homecoming in the Book of Ruth

Open Theology, 2021
My article examines various artworks from Europe and Israel that portray and are inspired by the Book of Ruth. While in Jewish sources such as the Talmud (Yevamot 47b) Ruth is seen as an immigrant and a convert to Judaism, European artists since the ...
Anzi Achia
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Babe Ruth: Religious Icon

Religions, 2019
Babe Ruth is a mythic figure in American baseball history. His extraordinary skills and legendary exploits are central to the idea of baseball as America’s national pastime and are woven into the fabric of American history and iconography. Much has
Rebecca Alpert
exaly   +3 more sources

Ruth Quoque--A Coquette? (Ruth 4:5) [PDF]

Tyndale Bulletin, 1990
Murray D. Gow
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Ruth: Portrait of a Foreign ≫Woman of Valor≪ in the Jewish Canon [PDF]

Edinost in Dialog, 2023
This contribution, within the framework of the research project on values in Judeo-Christian sources and traditions, aims to highlight the multiplicity of values which the figure of Ruth carries in the book dedicated to her.
Palmisano Maria Carmela
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«You have been given the light of the scriptures...» Girolamo Savonarola’s instructions to the flock in understanding the Bible

Гуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2023
The Florentine prophet and reformer Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498), at the end of the 15th century preached to his flock the necessity and inevitability of the renewal of the Church, which, according to him, had entered a state of «the indifferent ...
E. P. Telmenko
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Becoming Ruth or the Lamenting Psalmist: Finding Hope in Pain

Conspectus, 2023
The need for trauma healing has significantly increased in recent years, and new innovative and cost-effective ways must be found to help sufferers, particularly those in economically challenged areas.
June F. Dickie
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τὸ δικαίωμα ἔμπροσθεν ἐν τῷ Ἰσραήλ (Ruth 4:7): An analysis of the Greek rendering of the Hebrew legal aspects in Ruth 4:7 for characterising the Greek translator’s translation technique

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022
Being a literal and relatively precise translation of the Hebrew text, the Septuagint (LXX) of the book of Ruth attests divergences or variants in relation to the Masoretic text (MT) in the details of the text.
Beatrice Bonanno
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Towards understanding migration within God’s redemptive plan for humankind: A case of Matthew’s genealogy in connection with the Old Testament

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2020
This article responds to the emerging need for theology to be more engaged in the issue of migration and to develop a thorough biblical-theological foundation for a migration theology that challenges the Church to effectively respond to the challenges ...
Christopher Magezi
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Canon, sex and gender in Theodoret of Cyrus’s exposition of LXX Ruth

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022
The purpose of this article is to examine Theodoret of Cyrus’s (ca. 393–ca. 457 CE) exposition of LXX Ruth, as found in his Questions on the Octateuch. At the centre of this analysis lies the question of what an early Christian author like Theodoret, who
Chris L. de Wet
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‘I will marry Ruth so that the name of the dead will not be blotted out’: Exploring הסך (hesed) in Ruth 4:1–13

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2022
The literary construct of Ruth 4:1–13, which borders on the marriage union of Boaz and Ruth, is underscored with the loving-kindness of God. Boaz was not obligated under any legal requirement to marry Ruth.
Damian O. Odo, Collins I. Ugwu
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