... on the whims of ’elohim-diviners. 1:8 Naomi’s concern for her daughters-in-law is too deep to watch them suffer (see 1 Tim. 5:11). Go back, each of you, to your mother’s home, she urges. Some scholars imagine an anthropological counterpart to the father’s house ... den individuellen Klage-und Dankliedern des alten Testaments (Basel: Zollikon, 1947), pp. 87–94. D. N. Fewell and D. M. Gunn (“ ‘A Son is Born to Naomi!’ ” JSOT 40 [1988], pp. 99–108) see Naomi as a scheming manipulator whose only ...
