Knowing the Bible: Ruth and Esther: A 12-Week Study
Overview
The books of Ruth and Esther recount two of the most moving stories in all of Scripture: Ruth, a displaced widow in search of a new home and loving husband, and Esther, a courageous queen intent on saving her people from imminent destruction.
This guide explains the biblical text with clarity and passion—leading us on a journey to discover the God who hears the cries of his people and remains faithful to his promises.
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- Presents practical applications and challenging questions
- Includes instructional 12-week courses on the books of Ruth and Esther
- Provides many rich and exciting ways to study the Bible
Top Highlights
“We begin with Ruth, a foreigner who found a home in Bethlehem. She lived during the period of the judges, when there was yet no king in Israel and ‘everyone did what was right in his own eyes’ (Judg. 21:25). This masterful narrative is about Ruth, but it is even more about God’s covenant3 kindness to his people—even in the midst of their repeated rebellion against him. Ruth’s mother-in-law, Naomi, doubts but then learns this kindness, as Ruth and Boaz live it out before her eyes. In four artfully shaped scenes, these three characters live the story of a God who provides for his people according to his promises.” (Page 7)
“Two books in the Bible are named after women: Ruth and Esther. These women lived approximately five centuries apart, one in the period leading up to the kingdom of Israel,1 and the other following the kingdom’s decline and fall. One was a foreigner who came to the land of Judah; the other was a Jew who lived in a foreign land.” (Page 7)
“The book of Esther tells of the overturning of this cruel threat through Esther’s courage and ultimately through a myriad of providential occurrences unfolded by the plot. In a masterfully patterned narrative that pivots right in the center, we see God’s people in the depths but then exalted, and their enemies high and proud but then brought down. This is the very gospel pattern of reversal sung about by women like Hannah (1 Sam. 2:1–10) and Mary (Luke 1:46–55). God’s promises are true, and they are true ultimately in the promised King who came down to earth, down to the lowest point of death on a cross, and then rose from the dead and ascended to the heights of heaven—the great reversal, which makes possible our own reversal from death to eternal life.” (Page 44)
- Title: Ruth and Esther, A 12-Week Study
- Author: Kathleen Nielson
- Series: Knowing the Bible
- Publisher: Crossway
- Print Publication Date: 2014
- Logos Release Date: 2015
- Pages: 96
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Bible. O.T. Ruth › Commentaries; Bible. O.T. Ruth › Study and teaching; Bible. O.T. Ruth › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Bible. O.T. Esther › Commentaries; Bible. O.T. Esther › Study and teaching; Bible. O.T. Esther › Criticism, interpretation, etc
- ISBNs: 9781433540387, 9781433540394, 9781433540400, 9781433540417, 143354038X, 1433540398, 1433540401, 143354041X
- Resource ID: LLS:KNOWINGBIBLE08RU
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
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