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Ruth: The Hebrew Verb That Means to Stay

Ruth: The Hebrew Verb That Means to Stay

A guided reading of the book of Ruth

12 chapters · 19 min read

Twelve scenes about a Moabite woman whom today's readers tend to know better as a romantic character than as a theologian of the covenant, a single Hebrew word that defines the entire book, a barley field with gleaning laws designed for women like her, and the genealogy of David, and of Jesus, that passed deliberately through a foreigner.

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Chapters.

IRuth Is Not a Love Story·
IIThe Time of the Judges·
IIIBethlehem, the House of Bread·
IVTen Years in Moab·
VThree Widows on the Road to Bethlehem·
VIThe Verb Dabaq: To Cling, To Stay·
VII"Where You Go, I Will Go"·
VIIIArrival in Bethlehem: Mara·
IXThe Gleaning Laws·
XBoaz, the Go'el·
XIThe Night at the Threshing Floor·
XIIThe Genealogy·

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