Ruth
Katharine Doob Sakenfeld
Westminster John Knox Press, 1999 - 91 pages
The
narrative of the book of Ruth is a drama of ordinary human life, but
the drama unfolds against a background of the providence and purposes of
God. Katharine Doob Sakenfeld has written a commentary that makes very
clear why the book of Ruth has such great importance as literature and
as scripture. The commentary gives evenhanded treatment of both the
human and divine dimensions of the text; Sakenfeld's interpretation is
sociological as well as theological. She assesses all the significant
questions about the origin and purpose of the book, and asserts that the
organizing center of a proper reading must be found in the narrative
itself rather than in tentative answers to historical questions.
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