Home Life in Ancient Palestine: Studies in the Book of Ruth

by Andrew Thomson

Publisher:

Thomas Nelson

, 1877

Overview

In Home Life in Ancient Palestine, author Andrew Thomson compiles his past lectures on Ruth to bring readers a practical perspective on this widely popular book of the Bible. His aim is to “remove its obscurities, unravel its difficulties, to state some of the many lessons of religion, morality, and prudence that are scattered over it like its own rich harvest gleanings, and to show the manifold application of these to our own circumstances and times.”

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Key Features

• Illustrates the beauty of the book of Ruth
• Aims to deepen the reader’s understanding of the book

Contents

• Introductory
• The Emigrants
• The Return
• The Religion of Sentiment and the Religion of Principle
• Despondency, or Light at Eventide
• The Gleaners
• The Good Master
• Godliness with Contentment
• Doubtful Expedients; or, “Let Not Your Good Be Evil Spoken Of”
• “Whatsoever Thy Hand Findeth to Do, Do It”
• Holy Wedlock; or, “Marriage Is Honourable in All”
• Little Obed

Praise for the Print Edition

Doctor Thomson . . . gives a series of able and thoughtful discourses on the Book of Ruth, upon which considerations, as to the value of the Old Testament home-life lessons, analogous to the foregoing, appear to have had an influence. They contain some charming and suggestive writing, and also throw much light on the narrative. We wish that all who read them may rise from their perusal with the sense of invigoration which we confess that they produced on us.

—The Baptist Magazine

Product Details

• Title: Home Life in Ancient Palestine: Studies in the Book of Ruth
• Author: Andrew Thomson
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson and Sons
• Publication Date: 1877
• Pages: 213

About Andrew Thomson

Andrew Thomson is Pastor of Kesgrave Baptist Church in Suffolk. He became a Christian while studying at Oxford, where he also met his wife, Helen. He ran a Christian bookshop in Woking for some years before being called to the ministry. His first pastorate was at Mitchley Hill Evangelical Church in Sanderstead, Surrey, before moving to Kesgrave in 2010.