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Original Language: Hebrew
Original Language: Hebrew
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This review is from: Ruth (The Anchor Bible, Volume 7) (Hardcover)
I am a scientist, not a Hebrew scholar, but I love this book and it, in turn, has given me a love for the book of Ruth.
A Hebrew professor once told me this was the best English language commentary on Ruth, but that doesn't do it justice. It is a joy to read. The translation is lively and the commentary is totally engrossing. Even the textual notes are accessible and worthwhile reading for the layman. An example from the notes: (The Hebrew text injects) "a note of sly and good-humored wonder: `Well, what do you know, they arrived in Bethlehem for the barley harvest--just the right time!'"
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Ruth, "the gleaner-maid, meek ancestress" of David the psalmist for Dante, model for Christiana's youthful companion Mercy for Bunyan, chooser of the better part, and thus, like Mary, the paradigm for Milton's virtuous young lady-is a woman beloved by all who read her story. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
near redeemer, nearer redeemer, verb qnh, covenant circle, genealogical appendix, levirate practice, infinitive construct, most recent commentators, proposed translation, more difficult reading, ancient audience, levirate marriage, threshing floor Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old Testament, New York, Song of Songs, Dead Sea, Old Greek, Bethlehem of Judah, Court History of David, Ruth the Moabitess, Alten Testament, Ruth Rabbah, Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Harvard Theological Review, Iron Age, Johns Hopkins University Press, King David, The Tenth Generation, Baba Bathra, Harvard University Press, Hebrew Union College Annual, Noel Freedman, Temple University Press, The Bible Translator, The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, The Legends of Genesis, Theologische Zeitschrift New!
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Ruth, "the gleaner-maid, meek ancestress" of David the psalmist for Dante, model for Christiana's youthful companion Mercy for Bunyan, chooser of the better part, and thus, like Mary, the paradigm for Milton's virtuous young lady-is a woman beloved by all who read her story. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
near redeemer, nearer redeemer, verb qnh, covenant circle, genealogical appendix, levirate practice, infinitive construct, most recent commentators, proposed translation, more difficult reading, ancient audience, levirate marriage, threshing floor Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old Testament, New York, Song of Songs, Dead Sea, Old Greek, Bethlehem of Judah, Court History of David, Ruth the Moabitess, Alten Testament, Ruth Rabbah, Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Harvard Theological Review, Iron Age, Johns Hopkins University Press, King David, The Tenth Generation, Baba Bathra, Harvard University Press, Hebrew Union College Annual, Noel Freedman, Temple University Press, The Bible Translator, The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, The Legends of Genesis, Theologische Zeitschrift New!
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- Ancient Israel: Its Life and Institutions (Biblical Resource) by Roland De Vaux on page 44, and page 90
- Biblical Archaeology by George Ernest Wright on page 108, and page 131
- The Singer of Tales by Albert B. Lord on page 19, and page 43
- Archaeology and the Religion of Israel: The Ayer Lectures of the Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, 1941 by Professor William Foxwell Albright on page 12
- Near Eastern Studies in Honor of William Foxwell Albright (English and German Edition) by Hans Goedicke on page 171
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