Letter 038 — The Story: A Threshing Floor, a City Gate, a Baby (Ruth)
A foreign widow gleans in the field of a kinsman. A midnight scene on a threshing floor. A redemption at the city gate. A baby in the arms of a grandmother who had renamed herself Bitter.
In this letter
- Walking the four chapters of Ruth
- Davaq (H1692) — Ruth's clinging, the same Hebrew word as Genesis 2:24
- Bethlehem as house of bread, the irony of the famine
- The gleaning law (Lev 19:9-10, Deut 24:19)
- Boaz's hesed toward Ruth in the field
- Under your wing — Boaz's prayer becomes Ruth's request
- The threshing floor scene, slow
- The redemption at the city gate
- Obed, Jesse, David…
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