Ruth: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
Overview
In recent years, students, scholars, and lay readers of the Bible have been increasingly drawn to the book of Ruth. Delving deeply into the complicated nature of its characters’ relationships, Jeremy Schipper encourages readers to consider the roles that categories of difference involving gender, disability, household status, ethnicity, and sexual desire play throughout the text. This fresh translation of the deceptively simple book is more literal and less idiosyncratic than its predecessors. Combining the traditional strengths of the Anchor Yale Bible series with the latest research in biblical scholarship, Schipper’s much-needed volume will succeed Edward F. Campbell’s 1975 edition as the go-to commentary for years to come.
Top Highlights
“Some scholars describe Ruth as a ‘comedy’ because they find a movement in the plot from harmony to chaos to resolution (e.g., Trible, 195; Fentress-Williams, 17–18, 134–36; Melissa Jackson, 180–97). Others structure Ruth around a progression of loss and a progression of gain or from death to life (e.g., Karlin-Neumann; Matthews, 219; Dubin).” (Page 5)
“Nonetheless, André LaCocque writes that the book ‘cannot have been composed during any other era than when such a tension [between ‘Law and commandment’] was the expression of an existential problem: the legalistic period of Ezra and Nehemiah’” (Page 22)
“Daniel I. Block’s outline moves from crisis to rescue, allowing him to focus on what he understands as ‘the narrator’s central theme—the providential hand of God in the preservation of Israel’s royal line during the dark days of the judges’ (620).” (Page 5)
“A Talmudic tradition attributes Ruth’s authorship to the prophet Samuel (b. B. Bat. 14b–15a),” (Page 19)
- Title: Ruth: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
- Author: Jeremy Schipper
- Series: Anchor Yale Bible
- Volume: 7D
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Print Publication Date: 2016
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Bible. O.T. Ruth › Commentaries
- ISBNs: 9780300192155, 9780300216547, 0300192150, 0300216548
- Resource ID: LLS:ANCHOR08RUSCHP
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:06:56Z