... left her father and mother and her homeland to live with a people she did not know before. He knows that Ruth is serving Naomi at great personal risk. He knows how dangerous it is to leave (’azab, 1:16) one’s “homeland” (moledet). 2:12 May the LORD ... Joüon’s opinion is followed by Rudolph, Das Buch Ruth, p. 46. Into the field: On the textual problems in 2:7 see Campbell, Ruth; D. Lys, “Résidence ou repos? Notule sur Ruth ii 7,” VT 21 (1971), p. 498; Moore, “Two Textual Anomalies in Ruth,” ...
... and your God my God; where you die I will die, and there will I be buried.” So, Ruth returns with her mother-in-law Naomi to Judah. There she met Boaz, and they were married. They had a son whose name was Obed. Obed had a son whose name was ... was hospitalized, for the past 6 months she could hardly get out of bed during the day. I commented to Dr. Campbell about his love and care for Mrs. Campbell. “I could do no less,” he said. “Over 60 years ago, I vowed that I would love sickness and in health ...
... your daughter-in-law, who loves you and who is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth. The third is in 4:17, “Naomi has a son.” Structurally, the narrator underlines three key moments in the story by inserting the words of these women like a choros in a Greek ... dominant literary theorists who view the genealogy, with good reason, as secondary (e.g., Rudolph, Joüon, Bertman, Campbell, Sasson); and give more attention to the book’s canonical-historical context (see the too-facile discussion on ...
