Book Introduction
Ruth
Written by Unknown
The Author
Unknown — An unknown writer who somehow set one of the most hopeful love stories in the Bible against the backdrop of Israel's darkest, most chaotic era
The author is unknown. Jewish tradition credits , but the genealogy at the end (mentioning ) suggests a later date. Whoever wrote it crafted one of the finest short stories in ancient literature.
1000s–500s BC
The people of
To show God's faithfulness and through the story of a woman who chose to follow Israel's God
What's It About?
Ruth is a love story set against the darkness of the Judges era. , a Moabite widow, chooses to stay with her mother-in-law and follow Israel's God. In , she meets , a kinsman-redeemer who marries her and rescues their family from poverty. The twist at the end: Ruth becomes the great-grandmother of King — and an ancestor of Jesus.
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