Ruth

by Alice L. Laffey, Mahri Leonard-Fleckman, Barbara E. Reid

This volume, using multiple methods, seeks to bring together the best scholarship and insight—Jewish and Christian, past and present—that has contributed to our understanding and appreciation of the biblical book of Ruth. As a feminist commentary, it is particularly sensitive to issues of relationship and inclusion, power and agency. In addition to the voices of the primary co-authors, Alice Laffey and Mahri Leonard-Fleckman, the volume incorporates and integrates important contributing voices from diverse contemporary social contexts and geographical locations. In sum, the commentary seeks to allow Ruth, Naomi, and Boaz to speak again for the first time.

200 pages, Hardcover

Published July 25, 2017

About the author

Alice L. Laffey is associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts. Trained in the modern historical-critical study of the Deuteronomistic History, she has expanded her study of the Old Testament to include postmodern feminist and ecological approaches.

Reviews

[Lauren · Rating 3 out of 5]

Parts of this were really great! And other parts were ok. I wish the conclusion were stronger in what Ruth offers to us and how a feminist reading of it bolsters our understanding of the text. The authors did a fine job of that in the body of the book but the conclusion was a bit abrupt.