Ruth
A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
1st Edition
Published on 5. January 2016
240 pages
978-0-300-21654-7 (ISBN)
Description
In recent years, students, scholars, and lay readers of the Bible have been increasingly drawn to the book of Ruth. Delving deeply into the complicated nature of its characters' relationships, Jeremy Schipper encourages readers to consider the roles that categories of difference involving gender, disability, household status, ethnicity, and sexual desire play throughout the text. This fresh translation of the deceptively simple book is more literal and less idiosyncratic than its predecessors. Combining the traditional strengths of the Anchor Yale Bible series with the latest research in biblical scholarship, Schipper's much-needed volume will succeed Edward F. Campbell's 1975 edition as the go-to commentary for years to come.
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Jeremy Schipper is associate professor of the Hebrew Bible at Temple University. His books include Disability and Isaiah's Suffering Servant. He lives in Philadelphia, PA.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- INTRODUCTION
- I. This Commentary's Translation of Ruth
- A. The Text for This Commentary's Translation
- B. The Structure of This Commentary's Translation
- C. The Diction of the Hebrew in Ruth
- D. The Diction of This Commentary's Translation
- II. Literary Contexts and Genre(s) for Ruth
- A. Canonical Placements
- B. Ruth and Ancient Israelite Literary Traditions
- C. Genre(s) in Ruth
- III. Ruth's Authorship and Date of Composition
- A. The Authorship of Ruth
- B. The Date of Ruth's Composition
- IV. The Narrator and Narrative Style
- A. Selective Representation and Narrative Ambiguity
- B. Characterization
- 1. Speech
- 2. Actions, Events, and Consequences
- V. The Commentator and the Focus of This Commentary
- A. Divine Activity and Acts of ?esed in Ruth
- B. Sexual Desire in Ruth
- C. Exogamy and Ethnicity
- 1. Judahite and Moabite Marriages
- 2. Moabites as Descendants of Lot
- 3. Moabites as Kin in Ruth
- D. Household Organization
- 1. Household and Clan Statuses of Ruth's Characters
- 2. Gender, Patriarchy, and the Household
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- TRANSLATION
- NOTES AND COMMENTS
- Residing in Moab (1:1-7a)
- Notes
- Comments
- On the Road (1:7b-19a)
- Notes
- Comments
- Arriving in Bethlehem (1:19b-22a)
- Notes
- Comments
- Ruth and Naomi's Conversation (1:22b-2:2)
- Notes
- Comments
- In the Field Held by Boaz (2:3-17)
- Notes
- Comments
- Ruth and Naomi's Conversation (2:18-23)
- Notes
- Comments
- Naomi's Instructions (3:1-5)
- Notes
- Comments
- On the Threshing Floor (3:6-15)
- Notes
- Comments
- Ruth and Naomi's Conversation (3:16-18)
- Notes
- Comments
- At the Gate (4:1-12)
- Notes
- Comments
- The Birth of Obed (4:13-17)
- Notes
- Comments
- The Generations of Perez (4:18-22)
- Notes
- Comments
- Index of Subjects
- A
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- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
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- Index of Modern Authors
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
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- Index of Ancient Sources
