Summary: The book of Ruth was composed as a charming but subversive text; the story is an artistic protest, a quiet counter-narrative to the aggressive exclusionary policy toward foreign wives enforced by Ezra and Nehemiah.
Summary: The book of Ruth was composed as a charming but subversive text; the story is an artistic protest, a quiet counter-narrative to the aggressive exclusionary policy toward foreign wives enforced by Ezra and Nehemiah.