Ruth vs. the (Dead) Law
“Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn…” John Keats, Ode to a Nightingale
“And chance so chanced it…”
Everything just seems to fall into place in the book of Ruth. But while nothing is predetermined, neither are there any accidents. It is no accident that Ruth and Naomi arrive back in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest. The author of Ruth knows what he’s doing. If he is going to confront a reading of the law like Ezra’s and Nehemiah’s, he’s going to have to show that he knows…
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