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General Resources for Ruth
(Check the
Scripture Index for links and study resources pertaining to specific pericopes)
 | Introductions, Overviews & General Resources:
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Ruth at Luther Seminary's Bible Tutor. Study basics about Bible
books, people, dates, places, and content, and take web-based self-tests.
CD-ROM of Advanced Studies
also available at their site. |
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Book of Ruth,
Wikipedia. |
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Book
of Ruth, The Jewish Encyclopedia, 1905. |
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Introduction to
the Book of Ruth, New American Bible. |
| The Catholic Encyclopedia:
Book of Ruth. |
| Introduction,
Outline, and
Selected Bibliography for
the Book of Ruth, by David Malick at the Biblical Studies
Foundation. |
| Bible
Basics (Ruth) by NetMinistries.
(Very basic - includes .wav files with pronunciation of Biblical words) |
| Ruth in the World Wide
Study Bible. |
| Walking
Through the Bible: Judges, Ruth. |
| Biblenotes
summary: Ruth. |
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| Commentary, Exegesis, Studies,etc.:
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Ruth, Geneva Study Bible, 1599. |
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Ruth, Matthew Henry Complete Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1706. |
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Ruth, Wesley's Notes, c 1760. |
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Ruth, Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and
Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871. |
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Ruth, Scofield Reference Notes, 1917. |
| "Life
and Literature of the Late Period," Gerald A. Larue in Old
Testament Life and Literature, 1968. |
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Five Scrolls, Barry Bandstra,
Reading the Old
Testament. |
| Ruth: Study
Notes, Dr Tim Bulkeley, 2004, University of Auckland. |
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The Book of Ruth,
verse by verse commentary, Robert Nguyen Cramer, BibleTexts.com. |
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Ruth, Expository Notes,
Dr. Thomas L. Constable, Dallas
Theological Seminary, 2005 edition. |
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| Articles and Background:
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"Ruth and the New Abraham, Esther the New Moses," Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe,
The Christian Century, 1983. At Religion Online. |
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"Reading Malinche Reading Ruth: Toward a Hermeneutics of Betrayal," Robert
D. Maldonado, Semeia 72: Taking It Personally, 1995. |
| Ruth: At His Feet Until Morning,
from And Adam Knew Eve: A Dictionary of Sex in the Bible,
by Ronald L. Ecker. |
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"Ruth and the Sense of Self: Midrash and Difference," Judaism,
1999. |
| "The
Bold and the Biblical," Deborah Belonick, BeliefNet, July
2000. |
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"The Family in the Bible," James A. Sanders, Biblical Theology Bulletin,
2002. |
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"Engaging Biblical Women," Lillian Klein,
Bible and Interpretation,
2003. |
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"The
Determiniation of Social Identity in the Story of Ruth," Victor H.
Matthews, Biblical Theology Bulletin, 2006. |
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| Articles in
ATLAS Journals. (Direct link when you are
subscribed and logged in to
ATLASerials online collection of Religion and Theology Journals.):
| Aschkenasy, Nehama,
"Reading Ruth through a Bakhtinian Lense: The Carnivalesque in a
Biblical Tale," Journal of Biblical Literature, 2007.
Image Browse -
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| Bender, David M.,
"The Diary of Ruth: An Imagined World," Journal for Preachers,
2007.
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| Blotz, Joseph W.,
"Bitterness and Friendship: A Feminist Exegesis of the Book of Ruth,"
Currents in Theology and Mission, 2005. |
| Bovell, Carlos,
"Symmetry, Ruth and Canon," Journal for the Study of the Old
Testament, 2004. |
| Chisholm, Robert B.,
Jr.,
"A Rhetorical Use of Point of View in Old Testament Narrative,"
Bibliotheca Sacra, 2002. (Extensive section on
point of view in Ruth.) |
| Chu, Julie L.C.,
"Returning Home: The Inspiration of the Role Dedifferentiation in the Book
of Ruth for Taiwanese Women," Semeia, 1997. |
| Collins, C. John,
"Ambiguity and Theology in Ruth," Presbyterion, 1993. |
| Fisch, Harold,
"Ruth and the Structure of Covenant History," Vetus Testamentum,
1982. |
| Glanzman, George S.,
S.J.,
"The Origin and Date of the Book of Ruth," The Catholic Biblical
Quarterly, 1959. |
| Grant, Reg,
"Literary Structure in the Book of Ruth," Bibliotheca Sacra,
1991. |
| Green, Barbara, O.P.,
"The Plot of the Biblical Story of Ruth," Journal for the Study of
the Old Testament, 1982. |
| Grossman,
Jonathan, "'Gleaning among the Ears' - 'Gathering among the Sheaves':
Characterizing the Image of the Supervising Boy (Ruth 2)," Journal of
Biblical Literature, 2007.
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| Holbert, John C.,
"The Bible Becomes Literature: An Encounter with Ruth," Word & World,
1993. |
| Howell, James C.,
"Between Text and Sermon: Ruth 1:1-18," Interpretation, 1997. |
| Landy, Francis,
"Ruth and the Romance of Realism, or Deconstructing History," Journal
of the American Academy of Religion, 1994. |
| Loretz, Oswald,
"The Theme of the Ruth Story," The Catholic Biblical Quarterly,
1960. |
| Luter, A. Boyd and
Richard O. Rigsby,
"An Adjusted Symmetrical Structuring of Ruth," Journal of the
Evangelical Theological Society, 1996. |
| Masenya, Madipoane,
"Struggling with Poverty/Emptiness: Rereading the Naomi-Ruth Story in
African South Africa," Journal of Theology for South Africa,
2004. |
| Merrill, Eugene H.,
"The Book of Ruth: Narration and Shared Themes," Bibliotheca Sacra,
1985. |
| Moore, Michael S.,
"Ruth the Moabite and the Blessing of Foreigners," The Catholic
Biblical Quarterly, 1998. |
| Moore, Michael S.,
"Two Textual Anomalies in Ruth," The Catholic Biblical Quarterly,
1997. |
| Prinsloo, W.S.,
"The Theology of the Book of Ruth," Vetus Testamentum, 1980. |
| Rauber, D.F.,
"Literary Values in the Bible: The Book of Ruth," Journal of Biblical
Literature, 1970. |
| Shepherd, David,
"Violence in the Fields? Translating, Reading, And Revising in Ruth 2,"
The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 2001. |
| Thomas, Nancy J.,
"Weaving the Words: The Book of Ruth as Missiologically Effective
Communication," Missiology, 2002. |
| Westermann, Claus,
"Structure and Intention of the Book of Ruth," Word & World,
1999. |
| Wolfenson, L.B.,
"Implications of the Place of the Book of Ruth in Editions, Manuscripts, and
Canon of the Old Testament," Hebrew Union College Annual, 1924. |
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| Reviews:
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Review: Eugene F. Roop, Ruth, Jonah, Esther. (Herald, 2002) Review
by Marjo Korpel in SBL's Review of Biblical Literature. |
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Review:
Andre Lacocque, Le Livre de Ruth. (Labor et Fides, 2004) Review by
Kirsten Nielsen
in SBL's Review of Biblical Literature. (Review is
in English.) |
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Review:
Donald R. Vance, A Hebrew Reader for Ruth. (Hendrickson, 2003) Review
by Martin Ehrensvard
in SBL's Review of Biblical Literature. |
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Review: Ellen F. Davis and Margaret Adams Parker, Who Are You, My
Daughter? Reading Ruth through Image and Text. Westminster John Knox,
2003. Review by Michael H Floyd, Anglican Theological Review, 2004. |
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Review:
Victor H. Matthews, Judges & Ruth. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Review by Uwe Becker in SBL's Review of Biblical Literature. |
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Reviews:
André Lacocque,
Le Livre de Ruth. Labor et
Fides, 2004. Reviews by Kirsten Nielsen and Marjo Korpel
in SBL's Review of Biblical Literature. (Reviews are in English.) |
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Review:
André Lacocque,
KC Hanson, translator, Ruth. Fortress, 2004. Review by Robert Hubbard
in SBL's Review of Biblical Literature. |
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Review: Ellen F. Davis and Margaret Adams Parker, Who Are You, My
Daughter? Reading Ruth through Image and Text. (Westminster John Knox
Press, 2003) Review by Michael H. Floyd, Anglican Theological Review,
2004. |
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Review:
Robert Chisholm, A Workbook for Intermediate Hebrew: Grammar, Exegesis
and Commentary on Jonah and Ruth. Review by Stefan Fischer, Review of
Biblical Literature, 2007. |
| Leneman, Helen,
The Performed Bible: The Story of Ruth in Opera and Oratorio.
Sheffield Phoenix, 2007.
Review
by Elisabeth Birnbaum, Review of Biblical Literature, 2008. |
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