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The Ending Genealogy of Ruth

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Introduction This paper discusses the ending of Ruth. I intend to perform an analysis of the genealogy, explain why the author chose to conclude the book with this genealogy, and explore how this conclusion should influence one’s reading of the whole book. I took the conservative view that the ending is an original part of … Read more

Study on the Hebrew’s term “goel” in the book of Ruth

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Introduction This paper is a study the Hebrew word, גאל, in the book of Ruth. The purpose is to understand its meaning to properly interpret the message of the book. Occurrences in the OT In the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartentia, גָּאַל appears 103 times in 83 verses. 23 times of those in Isaiah, 22 times in … Read more