... -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 ... the smear campaign” against David, dashing out this piece of art somewhat like Mozart’s famous composition Eine kleine Nachtmusik—never imagining, with Mozart, that such an off-the-cuff composition might someday overshadow the “more important” ...
